This is an analysis of the poem A Memorial For The Lives Lost In Karbala Was Done that begins with:

A Memorial for the lives lost in Karbala was done
And the bodies and the heads had finally become one ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabacacdXcceeeaecceeeefccbcXggghciicececadaiahhdabdhbbbbchffXfeeehbhccdcXdbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 76,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 001001011010011 10101011100011 110110101011 1010001001001 11111001011 010011110001 1111011111 11110100101 01001111101 111111011 1111110111 1110010111 01110110101 101010110101 11110101010 111111011 1101011101 11111110011101 000010101001 1010111110111 1101011101 011111011101 11111011001 1110100100111101001011 1101011001101 001001100111011 1111011111001 110110101011 10011100011001 1101011010111 11011000101 111100100001001 110111011101 1111110111011 1101111101 1001010001 1010011011 1001101111 11111011001 10010110101 11111101 10011111110 1101001101001 01001101011 101010110101 10110111011 01101101001 1010100101 011011111101 000101001011 01010010111 11011101 1011110010111101010011 10111001011 11001010111 11011011111 111101101101 1011111011 111101010111 10010101111 0110100110101 1010101101 111110111101 1111101101 1111111101 11101100101 101110101111 1111011101 1111011101 0101110111 111111011111 11110111101 01010110111 101101011001 100110111011 111010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3729
  • Average number of words per stanza: 703
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and, in, i, you, their, to, would, my, farewell, t, won are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, won are repeated.

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

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