Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 01 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 01 that begins with:

I heard a padshah giving orders to kill a prisoner. The helpless
fellow began to insult the king on that occasion of despair, with...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc de bX Xf XgXXeacXhibX Xf gXXidfhef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,12,2,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101010010100010 100100101110100010 0111101101001000 10 1100101 111011001 10100010101111010 10101001 010111011100 011010011 101111110001010 0111111110110101 11101001000 0110101010011010 10001000010110111 011010100100100 10101001110100000110 0101111111010001 1011110010100100 00110101010101001000111 11101101000101001010 1010100 1101100111 000100111011100 010001010101010010 100 1100101011 101000100001 01101010101 0101101011110 1011001001 1100111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; to, his, of, and, he are repeated.

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