Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 24 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 03 On The Excellence Of Contentment Story 24 that begins with:

A weak fisherman caught a strong fish in his net and not being able to retain it the fish overcame him and pulled the net from his hand.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01101101100111101000100110111101001 01101100010 0101110101 011100101 01011110101 0101000101111110100011011110000110111011011111101011110101001011010100100101011011011110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 116 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 22

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; net, fish, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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