This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 19 that begins with:

A caravan having been plundered in the Yunan country and deprived of boundless wealth, the merchants wept and lamented, beseeching God and the...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ab X bcXXXXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110010001010101010101011010010110100101100010110000 101101000100 111101000101 10001001001010001011001101011010101001011110101100100111001010111100100100101001000101101000 0111100010 100011100 0110100011 1101100100001 100100100100 01100010110010 10100011101 1011101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 98 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, caravan, them are repeated.

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