This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 29 that begins with:

A man had a friend, who held the office of devan to the padshah, but whom he had not seen for a long time; and, a man having asked him for the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 011011101001000101111111011101101110101011011101100010110001011010000110101110101110100110101100110010101100101011100101000 1010100110100 11110010110 111101101010 1011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 148 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 26
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, he, and, not, but, him, be, devan, of, office, in, who are repeated.

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