This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 32 that begins with:

Having become tired of my friends in Damascus, I went into the desert of Jerusalem and associated with animals till the time when I became a prisoner...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XabXbc d eXeX bXcddedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100110011001011000100010010101001001011101010000111101010001001001010001100101000111100001010111111001010 1101010110 10001011111 0101111010 11101010010010 010101 0101000100010 1110111110011110000100001101010011101011010000100110101011101111001100100101000100011100011 01100011 001001010 011010101 0111100100010 11100100111111011110100011110101111111101110011111010 1110111011 0100011010001 00101101001 1001001011 111101001001 11111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 98 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 17
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, in, to, with, and, me, be, for, dinars are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wolf is repeated).

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  • summary of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 32;
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