No Flag Flutters In The Wind by Mahmoud Darwish: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem No Flag Flutters In The Wind that begins with:

No flag flutters in the wind,
no horse floats in the wind, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdbedeeeXdXXfaecXXXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110001 111001 110100011101 1010010001 010011101100 11111101010 1101001110011 100111010 001011010011 001001100101 010011001 0010011100111 101010101111 10100010 1110001010 10000101 0110001101 11001101001 10111 111101 1111100 1111110101 11110101001 0010111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 956
  • Average number of words per stanza: 176
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, in, of, as, 'we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, 'what, 'we are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wind, ' are repeated).

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