This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 28 that begins with:

The life of a king was drawing to a close and he had no successor. He ordered in his last testament that the next morning after his death the first...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aX X XbXXaXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0100111000111110101100011001011010010110100010010001000101100100010000101101011011010100111011001010101011111010101010001110001101000100011010110100101010010110101110001000111000100110100101011010010011101111011101100110110010001000010100100100110011110001011110101001001011010110100101100010111100111111100111110100111111101101000101101111010010100100101100 01000110101100 0101111111 1011001001011010101010101110111101111101001110110 0111111 011101001011 1011001001101 1101011111 01101101010 0101010010100 0011110011 110101101 011011111 01000100101010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 164 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 28
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, his, for, from, he, thy, with, has, to, had, dervish, me, be, him, who, that, last, at, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, if are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 28;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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