This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 19 that begins with:

A king of the Arabs, having been informed of the relations subsisting between Laila and Mejnun, with an account of the latter’s insanity, to the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdcceXd d edaXebfXfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0100101000100010100011011001010010010000011110100101001100100101001010110101010011101001001010100110101011011101110100001000010111010010011010001000111001 1011111100 01110111101101 111111001 1111110001 10100100110 11100111 1011110000100011 11111 01010101010010010010101011010100110000110010010010100100100111010011100011001001110101111110101000010101010001001001010101011010101001101101010010010010110100101010000111100101 000100111011 10110100111101001 11000110110101 111101000101 111011101 11111011101010 0010010101 110001111 111110111 11001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 112 (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, and, to, he, him, his, in, that, been, king, her, have, would, beauty are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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