This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 16 that begins with:

I remember having in the days of my youth passed through a street, intending to see a moon-faced beauty. It was in Temuz, whose heat dried up the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XbXXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100010111101010010111001010111100100011110101001111101010010001010111100011001101110110010111110011011100100010001001011110010010101010000100011111010110101110100101001000110100001010110001101011100101111101101001101100110010111000001110100001001101010101 0101110010 1101010100111000 100101010011 1010010110100 1101010111 110010010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 673
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 193 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 35
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, water, it, from, i, my, and, to, her, whose, had are repeated.

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

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