This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 10 that begins with:

I was constantly engaged in prayer, at the head of the prophet
Yahia's tomb in the cathedral mosque of Damascus, when one of the Arab...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbb cdX eXcX aeedabXXe Xc Xabe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,4,9,2,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110001011010010 1010001010010110010 10100100101000110100 001100100011101000 1 010101011110100 11 1111010010110 11101100101011000 110111101111101000 1001001011100111001 111010101011 001001101001 010110001101 11001111010 0101111011001 01011110101 110001111010101010 11010011101001001 10 10110011100101010 01010110110 1000100110 100100010111 0101100111 01111001010010 11010001101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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