This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 17 that begins with:

In the year when Muhammad Khovarezm Shah concluded peace with the king of Khata to suit his own purpose, I entered the cathedral mosque of Kashgar...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcd e XXec e acbe f g g fXdcbh X aXhXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,1,1,6,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00110101001010100101001011011000101010111010101011010010 11011101010101 01010010100110001 0100110101011 11110111110010 111000101010010001001110101110110100010111100110101011010011110110111111111010101010101100010010100101010 1110101011010001 01111001010010 1111111101 11110100110100010 10100111110010010001000010100110110001100101111 11101011011 0101010101011 0101010110011 11101011101011 011011101001110111111010111001101001001111101101000111111100101101000101100100011 01011011101111 11011100011010010110011110101011011011101010010001010101 110101001001010 110100010010001 111101100010 1100101011 1011011011 110100100010 01111111011101110110 110001011 1101101101 1111111010110 1100101101010 01110110101010 101110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 93 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 16
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, of, i, he, amru, zaid, when, that, in are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase he connects the lines.

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  • summary of Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 17;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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