Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 35 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 35 that begins with:

I was sitting in a vessel with a company of great men when a boat which contained two brothers happened to sink near us. One of the great men...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 111000100010001110110111010011110011100101000100111011110010110110101011111100111101110100100101101101110100101010101011111001010010110110100111010101010010111011010111110001111111010010100 11111100100011 01111101 01000010010 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 476
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 192 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 35

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, he, of, in, doth, one, and, when, sailor are repeated.

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