This is an analysis of Just A Glance by Amir Khusro.

You've taken away my looks, my identity, by just a glance.
You've taken away my looks, my identity, by just a glance.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AAXaXaXaXaA
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 1100111101001101 1100111101001101 11011010110 10101011101 111001011000 10110110101 11110111110 1110101101 1111101110 111111101 1100111101001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

by, my, you've, just, glance

Anaphora

you've

Epiphora

glance