This is an analysis of Sack The Gongman by Bulleh Shah.

Sack the gon-gman
My love has come home today…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XA bcac B XdXd B efcf B eXgX B Xggg BXBA
  • Stanza lengths: 2,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,4,
  • Metre: 1011 1111101 11011101 110110111 01001001 1110101 1011 10010100 001010101001 10101111 010100101 1011 101010101 1011101 101111 101101 1011 110101001 0100011001 1111111 110100100 1011 1111010010 10101011 10111111 11011111 1011 1011 1111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

sack

Epiphora

man