This is an analysis of the poem Noorjahan that begins with:
They have made Noorjahan stand in a hole in the courtyard.
There she stands submerged to her waist, her head hanging....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXb cccc X dXbdacXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,1,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010010011 111010010110 11011100 11110110 1101111011 111101001 1001010111110 100111110 1001101110 1001111101110 1111101 110011011011 10111011110010 1101101101 001001101 10101010 11010 1110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, laughing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word noorjahan's is repeated.
The author used the same word are at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines also is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word also at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Noorjahan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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