This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 18 that begins with:
A man in patched garments’ accompanied us in a caravan to the Hejaz and one of the Arab amirs presented him with a hundred dinars to spend upon his...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Xa b aX c Xcbc d beXeXXXc X aXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,2,1,4,1,8,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010110010010010100101100101001010010100101010011000100110010101011101010101001011011001111000 1011001100 01001010101 0100111101010011111101111101101011111111110100110110101001111 0111010101110 01011010010001 101111101011011111110000011111011011010101001110110111001 011100101110 1011100100101 111010010101010010 1101010010111 100100100110001001010010101001001001111001011101110110101010110 11101101011011 010101101111 11011111101011 11111111001011 111110111 0111110101100 0101011010001 1110110101 101010011011100100110100101001011100101000100 111100110110010010 101110100111111101 0100011000101101 01000011010101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 96 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 18
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, not, of, my, his, on, him, that, from, i 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.
The poet repeated the same word him at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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