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Practical exercise

Tone analysis of three Urdu couplets

You will pick three Urdu couplets that share a theme but live in different tones, and write a short tone analysis of each. The exercise sounds artistic, but it is really a precision exercise. By the end you will name tone the way a doctor names a symptom.

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Now try it

Tone analysis of three Urdu couplets

Stretch

Repeat with English news leads on one event from three different newspapers in the same week. Tone analysis works as well in English as in Urdu, but the tools to detect it are slightly different.

Goes into your portfolio

One sheet titled tone-NN with three handwritten couplets, three line analysis under each, and a four sentence reflection at the bottom.