This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 07 that begins with:

Two Khorasani dervishes travelled together. One of them, being weak, broke his fast every second night whilst the other who was strong consumed every...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 11000100100101001011011001011010111011001110101101010100110100101101001010010101000011011101100111101001000101010111100110110101010100010101100101001100100011001000100111010101101010111001010100101011 11010101010001 11010100100011 110100110100 10110101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 518
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 210 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 35
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, it, and, whilst, strong, that, when, in, them are repeated.

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