This is an analysis of the poem Saif-Ul-Malook 08 that begins with:
What do we gain by back-biting?
Save yourself O Muhammad! for as you sow, so shall you reap....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa Xb cd ec fe dg hg XX cc iff Xj jab cX cfb bXc ig chh gdXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,3,3,2,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111110 110101011111111 011000101111110101 1101101100 10111010110001 0101101010011101001 10111001101001010 101000010000100101001 01001010001001 1010101010111010110 1101010100001 01101101110110111010 0110100000011001 1001100111001011010 01010011010110 11111101111011 0110110011010 01111001011010 1101010111111 01011111001 10001001001 111111001011 111000011011001 11111110101 11111010011 1011001010 1001001100101 1100101010111110010101 011111010101 01001010010111 10001101111011010 0110110010010110110 11100010010 010100011011 10111010010110101 11110011111111110110 01101010101 0101100100 110100101010111001 100101001100101 101011110111010 1011110101 101000101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, you, to, of, this 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines handed, dust are repeated).
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- summary of Saif-Ul-Malook 08;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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