This is an analysis of the poem Laila And The Khalifa. that begins with:

The Khalifa said to Laila, "Art thou really she
For whom Majnun lost his head and went distracted? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXXXX XabXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010101101 111010111010 11110110101100 101110111100 011101 011100111 11011011000101 0100101010 0101001011101 01001000011100 1100010110 1111010101 10111110100 10111001100110 1101001100 11010101101011 11100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; thou, art, our are repeated.

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