Jo Is Shor Se 'Mir' Rota Rahega by Mir Taqi Mir: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Jo Is Shor Se 'Mir' Rota Rahega that begins with:

jo is shor se 'Mir' rota rahega
to ham-saya kahe ko sota rahega...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX aX XX aX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 100111110100 01101110100 1110001011101 111110100 1111110110 11111110100 110010101101 101011100100 111111010101 10111110100 11100111110 101100010100 11110111101 111110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; rahega is repeated.

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

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

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