This is an analysis of the poem Aawaaz-E-Aadam that begins with:

dabegi kab talak aawaaz-e-aadam, ham bhi dekheiNge
rukeiNge kab talak jazbaat-e-barham, ham bhi dekheiNge...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 100110101101110 10110101101110 101110111101110 11101110110111110 101011101101110 101110110111110 111101101101111 111101101101110 10111001111110 1001011011011001 10110101001110 1011101111110 1101101111101100 1011110101110 10110101101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; e, ham, bhi, dekheinge are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dekheinge is repeated).

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

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