This is an analysis of the poem The Stealing Of The Mare - I that begins with:

In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate! He who narrateth this tale is Abu Obeyd, and he saith:
When I took note and perceived that the... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXbc dXefgeXfhXcaciXXXecjaXXXjXfXkgjfhjfXifjiXfXeaXjjfXgXfdfXdXfcdclXgXjXeefkeefeXkcabfkgghXjfebfbhkcfaXXgXXfjgbhhkXXciXjXXcXaeXifgigXcXXfcbccXkjXjejdXdcfbcfgcefidXffjXiXXaXXbeXfd fjXgX XgeXaXaefcjfbfXXflXXfkcXildceXaXXXiXcediXkXflbggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,174,5,49,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101010000100111000101010111 1111101101010010010101111010011110100100111010100100101011011011101010001001000101100100101111101100010101001010011011111010 10100000 001101010010011011000100100010101010011110101000100100110001101101100100110110011010111111010001101111101101011111101100010000101001111111001011110011110101111001001111010110111011111110101010001011000011001111111010111010101100101001101110101101011011110110101101001010100100111101000111110110100010101100110011110101011101001011010101110101101110101010001011001110011111001011110011111000001011101110110110011101111101011101100101101111011001001110010101101010010001111110101010111110100100101010001001110011010011011101010101100101110101111010101111011110001011101010 11101101001101010101001011101111101101010101111100101001100110111111100011100111010010011110011011110110111010101101001011111010 101010001 10101010100100 101110010010110 10111011101010 10110101001010 101111111010010 10010101011010 100101011010100 100010101010010 110101011110111 11100101010110 10100111110010 1011111101010 11110111101010 100100111010010 11010010100100100 111011001110100 011110101010010 101101100011010 101111101111010 0111011010101 110001111011101 101111110010010 11111101011110 11100101011010 1101101010101 11111101001110 11010101101110 11110111101010 11100111111010 100101111111110 1111011101010 100100101001010 11110101010011010 101010110111010 11101111101010 11111110101100 1001111101010 100010101010010 100101111111110 1001001111010010 1011000110111100 1111010010101010 110100101010010 111110111110011 1111011101001 10110101001010 100101111101 0100010100001 10001111110110 10110011001100 1010111011010 11111110111100 1111111111010 10111110101100 10010110101010 1111011111010 1111110100100 100111011111100 11111010111110 01111110101010 110111101100 0001010111110 1011011101011 111010111101010 1110111101110 1001111111010 11110100111110 0101010010110 0101011101010 11110100110010 1101010111110 0110010111010 1111011100010 1100110110010 010100111010 0101111001010 101111101010 11001111010111 1101011011010 11010010011100 110111111010 1111111101110 0110111111010 11111010001111 1001011100110 1011011001010 1111010101100 11101011100010 0111111101010 1001111011010 1101011101010 1111110111110 1110101110100 1111000111010 1111000110110 1111000101110 1111111001010 111011110010 10010010111110 1011110101010 11011000111010 0111011001100 100101101110 1100110101010 11010111111010 00100011111010 10010111010100 11110101100010 1111011111011 1111011011010 111011010111010 1110011111100 11010101111110 1011101010110 0111110101010 1111011011010 1010011101010 11010100011010 1100111101010 1111110101110 1100010110010 10111111001010 1111110111100 1111101101010 1011111100010 11110011111010 11001011101110 1101010111111 11110100110100 110010101010100 1101011100110 10110101010010 110101011100010 1111111111010 1001010111010 01111111001010 1111111100010 1101111100100 1111011011010 0111011110010 1111010101100 0101011101010 1001111100010 1111111101110 0001011101100 10111110101010 1111011111100 1010010111110 101010100010 101010101010 101011001010 1010011001010 10110111000010 1010100110010 1111011100010 0111111001010 0111011011010 1111011100100 1000101001100 1111001101110 11010101110010 10110010111110 1111111101110 10101011001010 1110101111110 1011111110100010 11100101100010 0100111101110 11110011100110 11000100011100 1111010110010 100010110111110 1101011111010 101111101001100 10100 110101111010101001101010010110100000101010111010101010001101110100101111001101100111011111110000010110100111010 1010000011010111000111110101010111100110100010010111001100010111101001001100110110111001011110110110111011001010011000100100101110101101111011110101011010111101010100111111111100101100110101010110011001011001011101101101101111010110001101110111111010010010010111110110111101011101010100110111101000110111011110101000101110111011100001100101111111011110010011111111110100101001101 1010010101101110010011110011010011010110011111010011110101011011110101011010100100010 111010010 1010101100100 1111010011010 1111010110010 010111101010010 1101111100010 1101010011010 10001011101010 1001110100010 0100011110110 1001110100110 1100010101010 10101100010010 11010011011011 101101111110 11110111001100 1110010001010 0101011011010 0101011111111 1111001011110 11001101010010 101001101011010 111110101001010 1111111101010 1101001100110 1101111100010 1011011111011 1111011101010 1111110001110 1111111110110 11000111011100 1101011101010 101111011101100 11110101111110 11111110001110 1010111001000110 1101010010100100 1101011101010 10110011111111 11010101111100 1010101101010 10011111111010 1111010100110 1111011111110 11011101010010 1110111101111 11110101111010 1011010011010 1111011111110 1111011100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4575
  • Average number of words per stanza: 899
  • Amount of lines: 234
  • Average number of symbols per line: 77 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, to, for, her, he, in, this, that, his, one, him, hath, me, all, thee, when, she, boy, i, then, it, not, but, tribe, abu, there, my, forth, with, zeyd, as, them, be, said, abul, naaman, great, amer, good, name, tale, komsan, hassan, '', they, thou, ', nor, go, emir, thus, what, from, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, and, a, how, thee are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ', '' are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase salameh connects the lines.

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