This is an analysis of the poem Saif-Ul-Malook 05 that begins with:

If you do good to pious men, they never forget it for generations,
If you do good to mean people, in return they will injure your feelings....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cd eX bf fe Xa ff gb hX ae ii ig ha d dX ea bc fdXei
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110010111001011010 011001100011010110 11111110010010111 1011110011001010101 11011010110001111101 01011011001 010010010010111010 001001001111001 1111011000010010001 0111101110010110010100110 0111011011110101011 001010100111110 01000011010101 100110101001101011010 01011110101110010010011 101010110111010 111111010111101011 1111011111 110100011011011 011000100101 1010010110110110 10101110101101010 10010101010111110 011010101001011110 11100111010010100 010110011 1001101001101011 0111110011110110 1010101101110101110111101001 1110010111101011 101011111001 101101001010101110 00110110101 0101010010000001011 11101010101 101001 0111101100 1101101010010 111010010111011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, as, my, friend, one, heart, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, the, o, when are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Saif-Ul-Malook 05;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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