This is an analysis of the poem El Harith that begins with:
Lightly took she her leave of me, Asmá--u,
went no whit as a guest who outstays a welcome;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXaXacdedXdXf XXXghiXjheai jfhXeffhkjeX gXkhfXiidhkg iXhjXfXXfekgdX jXXXXXXjbXhX XdgkXaghchljXjgfhjhgfehXjeheekbfXgXgflfdfeXeicXcjeXd XhkcXcjkXkXifaXhXaeXXifeXXXddfhjhdXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,12,12,14,12,52,37,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010111 111101110010 101011111 10101111111 1000110110 110100111 11111101 1011001111 11110101110 111011101110 10101101110 1011101011110 1011110010 101001101110 101010101 101001111101 111101111100 111001111100 1111111110 111011001010 10101100010 101101011011 10101101100 111101101010 11110100010 111101101110 11111001011 111101101010 10101101110 101101011111 11101111111 101011111010 10101111110 111001001010 11111101011 111110111111 11101100110 111011011110 10101101110 101001101010 11100111110 101011011010 11101111111 110111011010 10101111111 1010001101110 11100111010 111001001010 10100111110 101101101110 10100111110 111001101010 1111000110 101011011110 11101101110 111001011010 0011011001000 111011111110 111101111 1011000101110 10101101111 111001101110 10101101110 101111101110 10100110110 111011101110 10100101110 101001001010 1111101110 10100101111 111110110 101101111110 11111101010 111001111110 11101111010 101001011110 11110101011 101011101011 1111111111 101101101110 1010101110 1000111001110 1011011110 11101011111 10100101110 101001101010 11100111010 101101011010 10100101110 101111111010 11111111111 101111110010 11100101010 100101011010 11111111010 101101011010 1110111011 11011011010 1110111101 10110001011 01100101010 1110111011100 01110110110 111111011111 1010100110 101011101110 11110100110 111011101110 10110111010 111111011011 1010110110 01101011110 10101100110 1101001011010 1110010111 101001001010 1110110111 110101001010 10110100011 101101101110 111101111 111111101110 10110100110 1110111100010 1001101101100 101111111010 101011110010 101111101110 10101101100 101001110110 1010010110 111011011010 10100111110 111101101010 11101001111 001111111110 101101011110 111001001010 10110100111 111101101110 1011110110 111001101010 11101101111 111111111 11100101010 101111111010 10101011110 101001111011 11111111111 1010011110100 00101100110 101011101010 101010111010 111111111010 1111111011 1101110101 11110111010 111011101111 10111101110 11000111000110 10111111010 101011011110 101001001110 11111011010 11110101110 10101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 936
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 166
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; our, u, thee, my, woe, from, her, their, of, with, and, it, nor, might, in, you, them, your, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words went, thee, nay, woe, long, ours, not are repeated.
The author used the same word o 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 u is repeated).
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