This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 02 that begins with:
I saw a dervish who placed his head upon the threshold of the Ka’bah, groaned, and said: ‘O forgiving, 0 merciful one, thou knowest what an...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcX X XXa XXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110101011001011110101100111011100100111001 111101001000110 011101101110100 100101010 1010101101010 101010001110100110010111111010011111010011101110110111101 101101110011 111111111 011100011101100101 1101001010010110110100 111100100110 1110010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 87 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, and, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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