Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 10 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 10 that begins with:

A poet went to an amir of robbers and recited a panegyric but he ordered him to be divested of his robe. As the poor man was departing naked in the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X Xaa X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 010101010101010010001110100010001101110101000111010011110101001101101100011100100111011110111111101111101001001011110011111010011001101111110111100100 111010111010 01110101010 11110111110 0101110011100100010111000011100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 175 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 34

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, he, and, from, me are repeated.

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