This is an analysis of O, Dwellings Tell Me; Where Your Inhabitants Are Going? by Antarah (Antar) Ibn Shaddad.

And to where their cameleers proceed along or halting?
Yesterday thy place showed sociable deer played joyfully…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaabbccXdeeddffXcgghhccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 25,
  • Metre: 10111000101110 10111110011100 1010110100100 11010110101 100101010101110 1101100101010 111011110010011 0100111001001000 011010100100100 1101101000101010001 0100111011101001 11000101101000101 101010111010101 010010101010 11101010 1111011001010110 111101001000010 010111101110111001 10101110011011101 101111011010 11100101010100 111011111111101 100110111011001 11111010100101 0010010011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

had, you, i