"No, I Wasn'T Meant To Love And Be Loved&Quot; by Mirza Ghalib: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem "No, I Wasn'T Meant To Love And Be Loved&Quot; that begins with:

No, I wasn't meant to love and be loved.
If I'd lived longer, I would have waited longer. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX bc XX cX cd ae eX fd Xf bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101101 011101111010 1011101101110 1011011101 1001111111001 1100111 11001010111 1110100010 1111011101 01110100 1000111111 1110010110 1101010010 110101001 0101100100001 1101011011 1111010101 101010001100110 111001011011100 11011111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; you, anguish are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word knowing is repeated.

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

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