This is an analysis of the poem Ch 01 Manner Of Kings Story 36 that begins with:

There were two brothers: one of them in the service of the sultan and the other gaining his livelihood by the effort of his arm. The wealthy man once...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110100001000101010100101101000101011101011011011010010000100010010010110100110001000100010010100111001001101101101110010110101000 01010010001 010101010101001 11011100100 1110101011010 1010100101011 1010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 124 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 21
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet repeated the same word service at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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