This is an analysis of the poem Arab Songs that begins with:
I. THE PARROT AND THE FALCON
MY Afghan poet-friend...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccd dddddX eedbbd ffcffadX XdXbb aagg hXdd XgcXb iaXaXhfii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,8,5,4,4,5,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101010 111101 0010101 1101111101011 0101101 0101101 11001010101101 110111 11101101 1101110100101 1111101 01011111 111010101101010 111101 110111 1111011111111 11110101 1010101 111111010101101 101101 00101101 1111111110101 110111 110101 01010110100111 01111001011101 0111100110101101 1100 100101111110101 01001001101001001 010100110100101 011001001010010101 100111111011011111 10101000101101011 10111101011010001 01101111001001101 0100110111111001 110010001111001001 11101001011100101 101001001000110101 1011 11111110111001 1101001101001001 101110011101001 110111001011001 10011101011001 10110010101001 111111001001001 11111100110101 100111110100111 100111111001011 11110110101001 11001011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, his, it, my, these, they, stung, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, is, they, sons are repeated.
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