This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 11 that begins with:

I spoke in the cathedral mosque of Damascus a few words by way of a sermon but to a congregation whose hearts were withered and dead, not having...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXa b XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11000101001001111001010010101101011110100010010101000010100101101111110111101011101111101010101101010000100011011110100101011100110100011110101101001111 0101001111 10011111101 1110101100111 00111111101 110101011001011001001000100100111010010011010001010110010101111010011111010101110101101100010100110010111001011110110100100100101111111110 1010101101001 1111001001001 11101010010 1010011101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 162 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 29
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, to, that, and, world, him, who, in, but are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 11;
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