This is an analysis of the poem The Rubaiyat Of Rumi that begins with:
Time bringeth swift to end
The rout men keep;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cacaXccXX ddeeXdfdf gdgdXaagg hheXXdXig XegXXhgij kdhd dgdg XeaeXeele aammXhhhh leXeXcXcm jagaXgghh gXffXkknn aaddXgXaa llaaXblbl gagaXgfgfXdgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,9,9,9,9,4,4,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 0111 110101 1101 110111 0101 1100101 1001 1 1110101 1011101 10110010 10111000 1010011 1010101 11110101 0010111 1 0100101 011001 1110111 1101 1101100 111111 010111 00100 1 11111 00101001 11111 111101 1100001 100101 11101 111011 1 1101010 1101 1100010 0101 1101010 0111 1100111 01110 1 11010010 1110011 1111010 111100 1000110 011111 101010 100111 101001 10001 100100 1111 10100 01101 11111 1011 1 1101101 11101001 1111101 101000 1001101 1011111 1010101 10111 1 01001 101001 101 01111 1011 11101 010110 0111 1 01011101 1100 01010001 0101 01010100 0101 01100101 0101 1 1011 001101 1111101 101111 010001 1101000 1011101 111111 1 110101 111101 0101010 11110 110101 011111 011101 0111 1 1100111 010101 01001001 00101 11011 00101 111100 01011 1 010011 010111 101101 1110 10111 10111 100101 0101 1 1101001 110101 010111 1101111 00111 010101 111101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 134
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, my, life are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, past, round, his are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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