This is an analysis of the poem Tarafa that begins with:
The tent lines these of Kháula in stone--stricken Tháhmadi.
See where the fire has touched them, dyed dark as the hands of her.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabccdeXXX XXffXfaXaf agaghabaafbaeidhhciXfeheieabaefaaeiaXiaiaaXaXeefjaaekabail XfXXXicXfdgecgggcXia cgfkfdfligcXXdehXdXgdXXXeifXibel XdedmXXfddXaeiXekddejdXmXXicmediiabdmd ddkmdcXXmeaime XdXXbbdcXcmmXegdmXideXbdgXgeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,58,20,32,38,14,30,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010011010 110101101110100 11110111101100 11011111111100 11010111111100 1101100111101 11101000100100 10010110110100 11101111111100 1001010111010 01101110100100 10110101110100 01011101100110 10011100100110 11011100110100 11011101100110 11001101110100 11110100100100 01001100111000 11011100111110 01111111110100 11111101111100 11011111100110 10011110110101 11010101111101 111101001101100 11010111111100 10010101111100 001111011100100 100010100110110 11001100101100 110110111110100 01101110100101 10010100110100 11010101001101 10110100110101 11010100110111 10010111110100 01001111110100 1101110101110 11101110110100 11011100101100 01111100100101 11010100111100 11110101110101 11111100111010 11100110110100 11011100100110 01101100100100 10010100110100 111011011100101 10011001000100 11100111100100 1101110100110 01111110101100 1101010100110 01101101100100 1101011110100 010100101100100 11010101111100 0111010011010010011101111110 111101111001001001111110100 11000110100100 10010101111110 111101000110100 10010100101100 11001101100100 11011101110110 11111111100100 101100101100100 1110111101100 1011011110100 01001101110101 10011101100100 010001101100010 10011100111100 01111111111100 10011101101101 11111110101110 1101011111110 01011100100100 11010101110100 11010101110110 1111011111110 11011111101100 10011101110110 01111111110100 11110111111101 11010100110100 101111001110100 01110101100100 10010100111101 11001111100101 10010111101101 11011101100100 1001110101000 11011100110100 11010100111100 11111110110100 11111101110100 11111111111110 11010100110110 10011100101100 110100110110101 11000111110100 11110101100101 11111101110100 10110101101111 11011110110100 11110110111100 11001010101101000 11010111101111 110111001110100 11110110111110 11010111111100 100101101001001 110101110000100 1101011111100 11111110111101 0111010111110 11010101100100 11011100101100 11010110110100 101111001110000 10110101110110 11011100110100 11110100111100 1111011101100 11111101110101 1101111110101 11100111111010 10111111101111 111111001111100 10010111011011 01110111101101 10010010110110 1101010111110 11010100100110 11110111110101 11111101111111 11111101101100 100101000111100 01110101101110 11010101111100 1111011111111 1111110111100 1111010010101 11110100100111 111101000111101 10111111111111 110001101011001 10110100111101 1110111111010 10010111111101 1101110111010 11110111110 11011011111110 11010100110100 111011011101110 11011101100100 01111100001101 10111100100100 11011101111100 11010111111110 11011100101110 11010101101101 11111101100101 11111111111111 11111111100101 10111100110101 11011101100110 10010110111110 110111101101011 11111111111100 11100110110110 10010110110100 111111111001011 1011101111100 11011000110100 10010110111100 110101001101010 1101010101100 1111110110010 11111101110101 11100110110100 10111101001100 11010101110110 11011100111110 11100101111101 11010101111100 10011000101110 01110101110100 11011110110101 1001011110110 11010101111101 1101110110100 11111111111100 10110111110101 011111101001101 11010101101100 01010111110111 10111111100111 01010111111101 100101010110 01011110110100 10011100100101 11010101001111 1001010101101 10110110110100 10111101111001 11010100111100 10111101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1631
- Average number of words per stanza: 311
- Amount of lines: 212
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; of, her, my, them, as, it, eyes, in, i, us, to, me, you, at, and, him, he, their, had, or, his, nor, men, with, where, not, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words men, only are repeated.
The author used the same word thus 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 her, them, us, me, it are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases her, me connect the lines.
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