This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 33 that begins with:

A padshah asked a hermit: ‘How spendest thou thy precious time?’ He replied: ‘I am all night engaged in prayer, during the morning in supplications...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abXbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101101110110111110101100100100010100100101010101100010010000100111001100100100 111101000100 11101001010 11101011 0110010010 1001101101010 010110101 0011100101 111110011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 375
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 84 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • summary of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 33;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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