This is an analysis of A Damascene Moon by Nizar Qabbani.
Green Tunisia, I have come to you as a lover
On my brow, a rose and a book…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdXeaddadXXeacXd
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 1110111011010 11101101 11101001010010 1101011 0100110111 10001111 00101001010 11000101001 001010011010 1111011 110000101001 101101000100 001010111110 10101010111001 00101001110 101011010110 0010010001100 1000111000101 1010110001 11011001001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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