This is an analysis of the poem Oh Fasting Muslims, These Are The Days Of Grief that begins with:

Oh fasting Muslims, these are the days of grief
On Syeds have fallen a grave calamity ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd ef fgfg hi gdfi aX jjff gf gjfg ef ffgk Xi cfgi fg fgfg fX kkfk gc hiki if dkck dc aihf ed beib gg fefa jh ddfk hh llalXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010110101 11110010100 110101101110 01001111001 10111010101 0101111111 1001010100101 10010110101 10100110101 010011011101 110011001 10010110101 110111001 010011101 01011001 00100100111 010110111001 01011001001 011001010001 100101111 101011101 001001111111 0110100101 01001010101 01001111011 001011001101 10110111101 111011001011 011110101 010101001001 100010111 1101010101 100100111101 10101001011 11010011001 1101011001 11000101011 10110101111 110011101 11111101101 1110101011 110011111 0010110101 10110101001 1001010010101 1011101001 111111011001 10101111111 10101001101 1011101011 11100101011 10110101111 11100101111 11100001101 101011011 1100010110011 111010101011001 0101011011 1101111011 10101100001001 10101010011 10110100101101 10100111011 101001101001 100010110001 1101101001 111010101101 10001110001 10101111011 010011010101 1001110101 1010101001 010001100110 1010101101 1010101101 11101011010 11010111011 1111110101 1001010011 11011001 111101101 0110111000101 1110110000101 1001110011 1001010101 1101010111 1111111001 11010101011 11110111 1101011101 100101111111 0010000110101 100101001111 11011111001 110110011 01001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, our, god, his, and, in, who, father, head, ali, her, be, you, s, he are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word state at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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