This is an analysis of the poem Asoka that begins with:
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Gentle as fine rain falling from the night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcdXXdebeb ddddcfccfefe bfbfbgbbdgdgd Xbhbhieiebibe jejekhkhlklh XlXlejejeeXjej XclcleeegeXdde bfbfeeededbbX fmfmXaeeeeehhiXXbbejfjefj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,12,13,13,12,14,14,13,25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1011110001 01100100111 1101110111 1101010100 100111 0110010110 0100101100100 1101110001 10001100101 110101 1101110111 011001 1101001111 1001011001 1011000101 01010010101 011101 0111000101 10111100101 0100101100111 10011111001 010011 01001110111 010101 1101110101 1011000101 1101010111 1110010101 110111 1101011101 1111110101 0101010111 1011001111 1001100101 010101 0011010101 110111 1 10100001 001001010 0101101 11010110 001001101 011101 1010101 101101 10100010001 0101100111 011111 111111110101 111101 001010001 10111001 101001101 0011111 101001010 01010011 111100001010 1101111101 111111 011111 11001100111010 1110111 111001001 1101001 1101101 10111011 011101 111001001001 1111101001 1111001 001010101001 01010100101 111111 011001 101101010001 1 1111 0101001 10011011101 110101101001 1101101111 011101 101101001001 0011010101 1101110101 011110 1011010101 1111011101 1001110101 1101 1100111 1111111111 11011100111 1101001101 111101 1111111001 0100011001 1110110101 111111 1111011101 0101010101 101010110100 11101 110111 01011100111 0111011111 1111001000 111111 0101010101 1001010101 0101011101 010101 1100011101 11111011110 111010 11111101 110101010001 1101110101 1010010001 11011100101 01011101011 1101111101 0111010101 110111 1100111101 1001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, i, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, as are repeated.
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- summary of Asoka;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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