This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 21 that begins with:

It is narrated that an oppressor of the people, a soldier, hit the head of a pious man with a stone and that the dervish, having no means of taking...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXabaXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 00110110100010010101001010011101010110101001011010110101100110101010011010100101101010111101111111110010001011010110111110100111110100100101011010100010011010101100111110100111100100000 11110101001 01001110010 011101011 0001010010010 110011111101 1010011001 1110010101 101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 583
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 129 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 23
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, and, stone, of, hast, head, i, with, dervish, man, when, soldier, this, that, in, his are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 21;
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  • history of its creation;
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