This is an analysis of the poem Impact Of Arabic Poetry that begins with:

Arabs, who founded the excellence of rhyme
On heaven or earth who were second to none...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdd bbbedd XXfXggXcfcfee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110010001 11011101001 01101110001 111001111001 101111110110 11100110010 010111101110 0100110010010 10100111110 01011111010 01001101111100 0111101011010 1111111001 1100101111 010011111001 1111010110 010011111001 11010011011 1101111011 11100101101 010100101011 101100010011 101111011010 111001111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, their, of are repeated.

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