This is an analysis of the poem The Gift Of Harun Al-Rashid that begins with:

KUSTA BEN LUKA is my name, I write
To Abd Al-Rabban; fellow-roysterer once,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcbeffghijdakXelgahcmbeknbaiknhaXihdoikedpqbddgbXbdaXdeipofbiadiqXdfgnajhXromindchihXiddiahXjmdqXmdamaoanXjqqXjafrkmakfegaddakldepoagesneoeXceoeabdgaaqasoAhasXiaeasbAdnXjbaknbjbdbeadqihdbcXdfnachhado
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 202,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011001111 01110101001 100101100 111110 10010 10110000101 11000101110 1101010100 111101010100 1101000100 1001010101 1111110101 1011010111 1111110101 110100111010 1101010001 1101001000 110111011 1110111101 1101 110111 0100010111 010011111100 1011001101 1100110011 1110101101 0101001101 1101110101 11000010100 1110011111 0101101101 1111000101 1101010101 01010110110 11010111010 11011100010 1111101111 1101011101 1111010101 1111111101 11101010111 1001010001 01000010001 100101000100 1101010101 1101011001 1101010011 1101010100 0111001111 1100110101 11101010001 1101010101 11111010100 1001011111 1101010111 1100 1110001 1111111111 11111101001 1101000101 1100110111 1101010100 1111010111 1101010001 010011101 10101010101 1011110111 1101011101 0100 110011 11000100010 1111111111 0111110101 1111001101 1100110101 1011011101 1101010111 1101010011 1111110111 100011110011 0111010111 1101001011 110100001001 11110111110 1001111111 1101011101 11110101010 110100 1101 1101010111 111111100 1101011111 1101111111 11011111010 1011010 1011 1111011111 01010101001 1101110101 01111101 11 11000110110 0101111001 10001001111 11101110100 0111010101 1101011101 0111011101 001100001001 1101010111 1111000101 1111011101 1011000101 1111010011 110100100011 01010100100 11111101001 1111010101 1101011101 00110011111 0101001101 1001001100 1111001111 1101010111 1101001111 0101110101 01111010101 1101010101 1101111101 111100011 1111011101 001000011101 1011010101 0111 010101 1111110101 1111011011 1101110101 1111110001 1101111101 1111011111 1101001101 1101111111 111011010010 110111101 1011011111 01011011111 1110011101 1111110101 1100010011 11010010101 1011111111 11001001 0111 1111010111 1110110111 1101110101 0101000111 01010100111 1011100101 1110011101 1101010110 1100010111 110110110010 1111110101 11111101101 00110110101 1101111101 0101000111 1001101100 11010100101 1001000101 1111001111 110100100011 0101111111 1101011101 1100100011001 0111110011 1011010011 1111010101 110011100101 0101011111 1001110001 01010101111 0100011101 0101001111 1111010101 1111000111 0100010001 11001000111 1101011100 0011001000 11110111111 11010100010 1001010001 1111110001 01010001110 1001011101 01010010101 11010010011 0001000111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1554
  • Amount of lines: 202
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, that, of, and, i, soul, her, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words seemed, or, had, and, on, i are repeated.

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

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

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