This is an analysis of the poem Ch 05 On Love And Youth Story 20 that begins with:

It is related that the qazi of Hamdan, having conceived affection towards a farrier-boy and the horseshoe of his heart being on fire, he sought for...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a Xbca d XXbXe f Xg e hi a abad f XaXcjb e ea i gfXbhgjh e dfXk e gg f bigk f ifgX e jgeX bXff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,5,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,6,1,2,1,8,1,4,1,2,1,4,1,4,1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0001010100101001010010100110110011011011111011100111011010001000100100 111101110 0110111111 1101110110010 0110000111111 1101101111100010101000110010110100110101001010101011101111100010101011000011100000101001 11111101010 1110100111 01010100100010 01001101 01011010111 00110110010101010110101111100111 1110110 1111110011 1010111010010101101001010011010101101010111010011101111101000010010100111 0010100010110010 01101101 11010001001111001010111001001010000100101101101110101010101101001001101101000100010011100110011110010101100101110011111111 111110010001 1101010100100 100010100 1101011111 010010001000100110101010010111111010010101101001011001000111001111000100110101001 1111001000100 11111010111 11111110 0110100110010 10111101001 110101011101 11111111001010001110101001001101011001010101111111011110011 010111101 1111010111011 01111011001101100101011010100100100010011011101001001110110 10101111010101 11010111100111 101110010010010001 010111110101 1110010100111 10101011100101 10111011 1101101000101 1010100110010010110111111110101010100111001010110011100111101000100110101010000100100110101101010101011001 1010101101 110001010010 11110100111 010101001101 011011011010011001101001010101111111001011111010011111011000101011100100110010101011111100010100110110010001010011 1110101 00101001001001110 11111010100100011010001010110011100110101010101001010010100100100101011011111011100101010100110101001010101010011100010011001001001001100101000100100100101011001011000101 11101101 111110101010 011011001010 10110010010101 01011110111101001000001100111101011011010110 100101000110 1010100110010 1001111101 1110110101 111101011001011001100111011010101010101101101111111010010001001111110011010 1110010010011 0111110111011 0010010000111010 110010011100 0101111000100101110001101000100010010110001011010011001011100100111011101001001111001011011101010101100111010101000100101110101011001101011111110010011110100111000101010010001 1010111100111 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 116 (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, my, heart, to, that, qazi, thy, their, his, has, he, not, night, it, i, in, thou, for, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for are repeated.

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