Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 07 by Saadi Shirazi: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 07 that begins with:

One who had for a considerable time not seen his friend asked him where he had been and said he had been longing. He replied: ‘To be longing is...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XabXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110010001110111111011110101010010010100101 111110101010 11111111001 11101111100 010110110111100 1110010101 111100111010 01110100110010 011101110100 1110110100010110 10001001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, had, thou are repeated.

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