This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 17 that begins with:
A bareheaded and barefooted pedestrian who had arrived from Kufah with the Hejaz-caravan of pilgrims joined us, strutted about and recited:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdX X caaXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000110000100110101000101010101110011010 111010010110011010 11100100110100101 1100110110111101 111101011111 01010100111011110011110101011101011001011111010101100101111010110100100101111010101111101010 011111010010 101111101001 1001101101 1011101001 1010100001 101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 92 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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