This is an analysis of A Very Mournful Ballad On The Siege And Conquest Of Alhama by George Gordon Byron.

Which, in the Arabic language, is to the following purport:
I…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bccddX XeeffX XggXcX XhhhhX biiccX biiffX XiiXXX XffhXX XXbhhX gjjbXX baXkkX XXlcXX XddddX XddhhX XXbhhX XccllX XmmffX XddaaX XddkkX XjjbXX XhhhhX XnnddX XddXiX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1001001000010001 1 01011111 1010101 0100101 01000111 101100 1 1000111 1100101 00100111 1010011 101100 1 11011101 11010101 1010100 00010100 101100 1 10010111 1010101 1010111 00101001 101100 1 11010101 1010101 1010111 11000101 101100 1 1011001 11010101 1111111 0010101 101100 1 111111 0110101 10011111 1110100 101100 1 1110101 0010101 1010111 10101001 101100 1 1111100 0011101 1111101 0101101 101100 1 110101010 0100001010 11000111 01100100 101100 1 1101101 110101000 1111111 1111101 101100 1 1111101 1110101 1010101 11000100 101100 1 101010111 01110101 01110101 11010101 101100 1 10110111 11010101 11000101 01011111 101100 1 11001100 1111100 01110111 1100101 101100 1 1011101 1100101 11111001 11010111 101100 1 1001101 1110111 1010111 1011101 101100 1 11111001 11110101 10010111 11011101 101100 1 10111101 11110111 1110111 11010111 101100 1 110100110 0101010010 10010111 11010111 101100 1 11110111 11000101 100100101 11010101 101100 1 11110011 11110111 01010111 01011001 101100 1 100101001 01010101 011101010 01100111 101100
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 24
  • Lines: 139

Repeated words/phrases

his, by, their, and

Anaphora

and, let, the