This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 11 that begins with:

I asked one of the people of Baghdad what he thought of beardless youths. He replied: ‘There is no good in them for when one of them is yet delicate...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 111001001011101011011010001110001100110101001110111011010100 10101010011 0101001010 10111101100 101000111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 89 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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  • summary of Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 11;
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  • history of its creation;
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