The Angel Of Death by Nazeer Akbarabadi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Angel Of Death that begins with:

Discard greed and temptations, forget your travels to near and far;
The bandit of death is blowing his trumpet and indulging in looting day and...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaB aXXXB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010011100111 010010100101010010111 11110010101110010 1100100100010111101 11011111110110100111101 111101111 1001011100101 010010111101001 01100110110111110101 11011111110110100111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 72 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 14

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, of, you are repeated.

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

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