This is an analysis of the poem Damascus, What Are You Doing To Me? that begins with:

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My voice rings out, this time, from Damascus...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdeeXbdf bdaegdahacbXi ajhke ebdXeihhdlmh mjcnkjdbdhhlXX olbdnahXbjebbmXX bmHbHdHjbbbh XddeXbdXgnbjpqhah OdiXgOXXbXlOemXglXha gccgbdXXcdXXdddde bjdecgjdlbj eolcXdgabXageeapemfbXcqghXjlje
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,13,5,12,14,16,12,17,20,17,11,30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 1111010010 0110010110110 0100100011010 01011011 110101 01011010111 011010111 1110 0101 010010 1010101 1001110010001 01010 010100 10110100 011101001 101001011011 101111100101001 10101100110 1111 1110101 0110010010 10100101111 00111100 00110111 0010001 100100010 101 10111010110100 111101001001 101101100101 1111101011 110010000111 1111111 110110101000111 1100111110011 111100101001100010 110011011111 110101011 110011001001 1110100 10010 101 101 11000100101 1110010011 110110100010 101001011 01010101101011 1110100110110101 10 10001000 10001000 01001 11010110 01001110 01111110 01001101 0100111 1010001 11101010101 1110010 011010101110 110110010 01101011010 10100110010 1111101001001 101001011000 011100101010111100 1100010100010 01010100101 111 0111110 111 1010010110 111 10110111 10101 1101 11001 011 101110010001 101001010 101 1100 1100 10110001101 10010010101 110110011100 1001001010 11101 1111001010 111111010101 11101001010010100 001001000100 1101001011 1110101010001 11110000111 11101 00100001001 11000100001 00100011000 110001000100 11101 001001010 1010 10010 1011 111110 11101 001001010 111110 1001001000 0010110 111110 1011011 1111 0101 110010100 11010 1010110 10100111100010 10100111 10100101 1010110 1101011010 100010 101001010 1111010101100 101010101100101 1010010010 011010 11101010011 11010011 10110010010 01001 0010101001 001011 01110100010 1100111010010 1100100 01010010100 1001011010 1110100010 10110 10011 1110101010 10001 110111010010001 01110 0100100 11010010110 110001010 110100101 101010 1111100111100 1111111 1001001001111110 000100 100 0101 1001010 1100010011001 11000010110010011 001101 101100 10111011110100 0111010 01 110001001011110 1010111 1111010100 01101000001000100 001110 11010101011101010100 1111110011001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, for, of, to, returning, in, and, history, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words riding, the, for, to, and, come, returning, as are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines green, me, jasmine, us are repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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