This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 32 that begins with:

An impostor arranged his hair in a peculiar fashion, pretended to be a descendant of A'li and entered the town with a caravan from the Hejaz, saying...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101001010001010010000010010110010010100101011110100100110010110000101011101010100110011110100101101111101010100111100100010110101010110011100010010101001010001010000110100101010101010100011101001000111110110001111011010011101001110010 10101011101 1100000101011101 011110101101010 011110110111 011111101111101111111000110101100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 428
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 215 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 39
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, be, and, from, his, it, i, king, had, that, said, to are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 32;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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