This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 09 that begins with:

One of the devotees of Mount Lebanon, whose piety was famed in the Arab country and his miracles well known, entered the cathedral mosque of Damascus...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X XaXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101100110011001010101001110001010010110100100000100101 001101111100010111010110100101011011100010111010001110010101010101110100010010101101010111010001010101101011011001000110100010010101110011111110100101001001100101001011111110101011100101010010011101111111010101001110011001011110010111010001000101100100010110110010100 110110011100 01011011101010 1011110111010 1010111101 0101011000010010 10011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 203 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 34
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, he, on, with, said, i, that, one, in, not are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 09;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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