This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 14 that begins with:

A dervish who had fallen into want stole a blanket from the house of a friend. The judge ordered his hand to be amputated but the owner of the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110001101000100101100100101010100010101010111010101011101010011001001000101010111001110100110000010111100100001010110010010101110010010010000010010010101010100110110111011111010110100101011011111010110101111110101 01100001000110 1110111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 484
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 3
  • Average number of symbols per line: 327 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 58
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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