This is an analysis of Beirut, The Mistress Of The World by Nizar Qabbani.
Beirut, the Mistress of the World
We confess before the One God…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcbbbdabXX eccaffXXcdae
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,
- Metre: 01010001 10101011 11010001 111011 1011 11010110011 111110110011 1110101001010 10101011 11101011101 11111111 11101011000 101 010111011 111011111011 1110111011010 1010010 1010010010 110110 11010100101 10100010 10100010 10100101 1101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, you, rise, in, honor, of
Anaphora
that, and, we, rise
Epiphora
you, us
