This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 20 that begins with:

A king with some of his courtiers had during a hunting party and in the winter season strayed far from inhabited places but when the night set in he...

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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: 010100100110010101001010110010010110110101010010111110110010100001100101100100101010100011000010011000100101101010111011010101011010101110101111110001100101010110110000101110111010100011010000100011011110111101000111010101001101101101000101101001011101 101100101011 10100101000010 101000101101 1010111101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 243 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 46
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, dehqan, to, in, he, house, night, king, it, but, had, dignity, high, s are repeated.

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