This is an analysis of the poem Lebid that begins with:
Gone are they the lost camps, light flittings, long sojournings
in Miná, in Gháula, Rijám left how desolate.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdbXbec XXdbafXXbfefeXbaXdXb gcXceaXagacXbcXechhcadXcXiXXdaXaiddhaaXd jdXeagXaXakaadfakcXdhdccekcddddkddcbXb gXackkbXadcggXadaibdkbXcXccceb bkdfdgedidjbbdbfadcXib dXbhXkXcafXXdkXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,40,38,30,22,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111101100 01010111100 1111011001101 101110110110 1110101011100 011011110110 11100111100101 1001110111101 1110111001100 100111110100 1011101111100 1010111101000 1101111010100 111010100110 1111111101101 101110110101 10111010011100 111011110101 1011111111100 101011100100 1011111110100 111110100100 1111101010100 11101001001100 100101001010100 100101100100 111011111010 11101111100 11011101010 1011011110 100101111101 10011100111110 00111011101 01110111100 101110010100 1010110100 1010100101100 011111100 1110101110101 110110111100 1011111011100 111110101100 111111011110 101100100100 1011101001100 110111110110 1100100111100 101110100110 1011111010111 101110101110 1110111011110 011010100101 101110101010 101010100110 110101011100 100110101100 1011101001101 110011100100 1101101011100 1010101010100 0110111010100 1010110100100 1110111110110 101110100100 1101101010101 111110101101 11101011101100 0011010110100 10101110110000 111110110100 1000101011110 0011100100100 1011101111000 101011101100 1010101110100 110111111101 1010100011000 101110110101 1111111010110 101111100100 1101111010100 1010101110100 1110101011101 101111110100 1011111011100 101011100100 1111111011100 111010100100 1101100001100 10101101000100 1011101010110 111011101101 1011111011100 100110110100 10011001001100 101011100100 1110101110100 111011100100 1010101110110 11101110100 1110101001100 010101101100 111101110100 10110111100 101111110110 101111100110 1111111100100 101111110110 111101110111 100111111100 1111111111100 111011110100 11101110011110 111110100100 1111000010110 110110110111 1011111010100 101011100100 1110101110110 100011100101 10111101111011 111111110101 1111101110100 111011100100 1111111011100 111111111100 1011111011110 110100110100 1101111100100 1011100101100 1111101111100 101110100100 1111101011100 0010111000100 1100101010100 011110100100 1001101001100 110111101001 1011101011100 110110100100 1111100110100 101011100100 1111101111100 101110101101 1010101011100 1111100100110 10011101011110 111110110100 11111010011101 11010110110 1011111111110 11011111110 1010111110110 101010100100 1010101110100 011010111110 11011001010110 101100110101 0110111110100 101011110100 10111010100100 110010110100 11100101111100 111011100101 1111101001100 100110110100 1001111011100 111111100100 1110101110100 101111110101 1111101011110 110110111100 10011111001110 0010101000100 1111111011000 100111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1424
- Average number of words per stanza: 259
- Amount of lines: 176
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (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, of, clouds, here, their, with, to, her, thy, ass, now, them, one, i, for, our, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words clouds, here, one, ere, i, all are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, her, them, me are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase clouds connects the lines.
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