This is an analysis of the poem There Are A Hundred Kinds Of Prayer (Quatrain In Farsi With English Translation) that begins with:

emrôz chô har rôz, kharâb-êm kharâb
ma-g'shâ dar andêsha-wo bar gîr rabâb ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 111101111 111111111 11111111 10111001111010110 1100101011101 11010101101100 101111001000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; b, z, r are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines b is repeated).

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