This is an analysis of What A Carefree Game He Plays! by Bulleh Shah.

He said, 'Let there be,' and it happened.
He made the latent turn into the manifest,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcaD befgD ahXcD eiegD XbidDXafahD
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,11,
  • Metre: 111111010 110101000101 10010101001 1010111 1011111 110101010 1100101001 1111101 01101101 1011111 11111011 11001011 11010110 10101000101 1011111 10101001111 101110001 11100101001 101011000010 1011111 1010110001101 101011001101 0111010101 11010111 1011111 0101010100010 11011011101 10100001000010 1110110101 1011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

he, himself

Anaphora

he, what

Epiphora

plays

Anadiplosis

you