This is an analysis of the poem Humayun To Zobeida (From The Urdu) that begins with:

You flaunt your beauty in the rose, your glory in the dawn,
Your sweetness in the nightingale, your white- ness in the swan....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa aa bX bb cc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001110001 11000100111001 11110101110101 01110101011101 11110111110101 11101010111011100 11010101110011 11010101110011 110001111100101 11010111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, in, like, my, i are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Humayun To Zobeida (From The Urdu);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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