This is an analysis of the poem Zoheyr that begins with:

Woe is me for 'Ommi 'Aufa! Woe for the tents of her
lost on thy stony plain, Durráj, on thine, Mutethéllemi!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaXcdefXgd XhiibbXXfijibfbekc XeXilXcXbbXcibiclbXi bfebhXcebljlfcce cbcfdiXghmaXXccfcXXXXicchb edadkXhcbeececajfXiccjiccgebfhcXbeXmf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,18,20,16,26,37,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010110100 1111011111000 01011110111100 110010110110100 111011100111100 11101010100100 10001110111101 101001010111100 11111110100101 111110101011101 111101110001101 10111010101101 101111010111101 10110110100101 111101010100100 10001011110100 101110110110100 000111010111100 1010111110110101 111011111101 11101110100100 100101110101101 101010111111101 1001011011100101 1110010010011110100 11100111110110101 1111010111110100 110101101111110 1110110011010100 1011001011111110 111101010010101000 10101011100100 1111100110101100 11011110111101 1111101110101 111001110100110 101111110100 1011111001010 111111010101100 11011010100100 10111010111100 10100010100100 10111010101101 110101010111100 1001110010100110 10110110100100 11111010110101 100110110101100 11101010111100 10111010111111 100111010111100 1101010011101 1111101110110100 101101110101100 101101010100100 10100110101100 111101010111100 11111111100100 0100111010100100 100101010111001 11111110110110101 10110101111101 100101110111100 1101110110100 1010101110100100 11101110111110 111101110100100 1110111010100 01011010100101 101110101000100 1111101010111101 11101011100110 1111101111110 10101010100101 11111011110110 111100010110101 10111010110110 111000110101100 11100111110100100 100111010100100 011111010110100 10101110101100 111111010110100 101111111100 100100011110100 101011111100 10111110100100 10101010100110 100011100111100 01101010111100 111100010110110 11101010110101 11100111010101110 00101110111100 110101010110110 100101110110101 1111110010110110 10111110101000 1111111010100110 11000111111111 11111011111100 111011010100100 110101110100110 10101110101111 111101111100100 10101010111111 111101110110110 11110111111111 111100010111100 1100010011010 111101011110110 10111110100101 111101011001101 11001110111111 111101111110110 111011100111101 111101010110101 10110010111100 110011110111100 10101110110101 111011110111100 11111110111110 0100111010100101 10100110110000 1010001010110110 110111100101100 111111010110111 100111110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 219
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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; on, i, here, our, they, of, and, in, ye, you, to, it, she, his, blood, them, that, he, who, him, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, and, that are repeated.

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

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