This is an analysis of the poem Ben Allah Achmet, Or, The Fatal Tum that begins with:
I once did know a Turkish man
Whom I upon a two-pair-back met,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaX cdXd eaea Xfcf cfcf gfgf eheh adad ijij jXjX abaX XjXj bgbg jXjb Xbbb aXad XacX jcjc jXjX XXjf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101111 01011001 101011010 01011101 110100010 01111111 010101010 11011101 011100010 11110101 111100010 01010101 110101110 11011101 110101010 1010010011 010101010 11011111 110001010 10111101 111001010 01000101 110100110 11111101 110100010 11010101 110101010 01110111 111110010 11110101 111001010 11010111 110101010 11011101 1111011010 100011111 0110110110 01110111 1101010110 10100010101 1000101000 11010101 1111001000 01110101 110111110 110011010 110011010 101101111 111100010 11110101 111101010 101111101 1101111110 1010010010 110101110 1001101010 010101010 11110101 010101110 01100101 110111010 101010111 111101010 101110101 111101110 10110111 1101011000 01001101 010001011 101010101 110101111 101111011 0101010110 101110101 011111011 10111111000 10010111010100 11110111 011011110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, and, come, you, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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