This is an analysis of the poem Quatrain 1693 (Farsi With English Translation) that begins with:
ay sâqî, az-ân bâda ke awwal dâd-î
riTlê dô dar andâz-o be-y-afzâ shâdî ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX a XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 111110111 1111111 111111101 110010 11000111111 1011111011100 10010011011 10111001111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, y, b are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word y is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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