This is an analysis of the poem Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 39 that begins with:

The son of a faqih said to his father: ‘These heart-ravishing words of moralists make no impression upon me because I do not see that their actions...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXXcXadX d a XXacXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,1,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100101001011100101001101001101111111101001000110 1110001001 10101011011 010110101101 0101100111 10010101110 11110111101 010110011101111 010110011100010 00111111101 010011100110101010011001010100010001001010101000010100010101110110100100010100010001010111111000111011001011111001001111111110111110010011010010010100100100101101101101111011011010000101111100100 111001110010110101101010 01101001 11010010010 011010001 001110010101 010110010010001010110100001000100111111010001010101010101010101000110101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 119 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 21
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, he, to, of, thou, and, his, lamp, like, no, on, scholar, who are repeated.

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  • summary of Ch 02 The Morals Of Dervishes Story 39;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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