This is an analysis of the poem Ayin Nedivah ('Generous Eye'): Qasida For Solomon Ibn Ghiyyat that begins with:

I can’t stop crying.
My eyes are like peddler women....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcde cfadghh iheh jgk lcm amdalemehimnkc cii hjlc kXh cdhmb e bbdcXh cfXcaXXXbabXinlb ncXhllhjbhhb jah ddcbhb cjmi ibdh jnhfj liXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,4,3,3,14,3,4,3,5,1,6,16,12,3,6,4,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 11111010 1110111 11101 11000 0111010010 111010010 110101 11101 11101 100111 0111111 101111 01110101 11101010 1011110110011 11010 011110 1101011111 111111 1101110 001101 1011 010010010101 1111110000101 11 10001010 11011001010 01011 1110111 011100010010 011110001 011111 1111101001 10101101 011001010 10100110010 1101011001 1101001 111101010111 11101111101 1110001011101010100 1010110101010 10100100101 1001101001001 101010011 01001111 10100101 10011010101101 1101 01101 10110101100 1110110101101 0111100 1010100101 011010 1001 11000 11111010101111 010100101 100001101000101 011100 101010110010101101 011010010 1010101110 1001010111 110011010011001011 0010101101011101 1010110 101111111101 101110101011 010110111001001 101111 11101011010 11010110100 1010110101001 11100101001 101101010101101 111110111 01110110 11010 0100101001010101 1010 1101 010010101001 01010101001 1111010101 11110101100 1101010 111111101 010011 11110 0110011 110111 111111 10110010 1101001 1111100 1010101 011011011 1101011000 101001101101 0101001 110111 10110111010100 100111 101010 1111001100101 10011111010 0101101010010 10101111101010001 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • 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; t, you, like, black, of, he, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, i, the, when are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, when, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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