This is an analysis of the poem The Captive that begins with:
Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining
He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccXdeeaaffdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010110010 110011010110010 10110011011110 110010010010010 1011001010011101 0101101111001101 11111011110010 10011011010010 011100010010011000 10011010010010010 010100011110010 1010010111010010 010010010010010 101110011001010 11010110010010 11011110110010 11011011010010 1110011010111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1074
- Average number of words per stanza: 192
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, him, his, of are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, him are repeated).
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- summary of The Captive;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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