This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 15 that begins with:

The beautiful wife of a man died but her mother, a decrepit old hag, remained in the house on account of the dowry. The man saw no means of escaping...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001001110100010110100110100100111100100110001010001110100010110011111010001010100111010111101010011 01100110101 010101010101 0010111011011 1101010101100 0001001001000101 1010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 366
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 105 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 20
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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