This is an analysis of the poem The Ode Of Tarafah that begins with:
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,
flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X b c X d d e b b f a g h c g X d i g d X X g d h j X k g l X X l c b d b d j d m j b n h d h n i a X e f o k e X e j h X o i X d j X a X d b m d o g m b k n l l k i X X g X m X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011000111110 1001010011100 10010011000110 10001001011001 0111001110100 1011010010101 10010010111101 1110100111010 01110111010010 10101010010 1111011101101 10111111011110 11010100101101 101111100110 11001011110111 10101001101110 010110010111100 001100111100101 00100101011111 00101101101110 11010011010001 00111000110101 10110001011010 10011010111101 10010010011 110100101110 1101101101110 10010011101 101101100111 111101100101 1011011101110001 1000101010 101001011101 0101010100111 10010100110101 101001110101 011111100001 11010011001 1011010010101 1100101011010 010011001111010 1000110010100 11010101110 1110010011 0110100111101 10010100010110 010111100100011 100101010101001 0101110010011 011010011110 01101010100 00100110100110 10010011101111 101110011101 01111001010110 0101000100111 11010100100 110100110101100 01011010111 101011001001010 0111011001010 1110001110110 10110101110110 10011100101 1001010111100 10011101001011 100111110101101110110100010 100 01100111001010 01101110101100 101001100100101 11010111101101 111000111110101 1100100101110 10001110111010 01100101001011 11111110001011 1101111011010 011110010001111 1011101110101 10111011011010 1 01001001011011 10100010101100 11010111110101 101001110101 10100001010001 0110010100100 111101010101001 101000110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 91
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 54
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (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; in, it, her, of, me are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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