Describe and discuss elements of the song

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• Unlike many songs that are heard on the radio in Oman, Diwan's lyrics for Batal al-Bab are "lacking in any nationalist content; rather the protagonist pleads, ‘Open the door, oh door keeper' and reminisces about the good ties with loved ones, who seem to be oblivious to his requests."
• Is composed in rhyming quatrains with each verse of two lines
• Each line has two hemistiches (half-line)
• The rhyme scheme is aaax, bbbx, cccx, etc.
• Formulaic composition may be among the techniques used by the poet

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