This is an analysis of the poem Kausalya's Lament And Rama's Reply that begins with:
Slow and sad with Saint Vasishtha, with each widowed royal dame,
Unto Rama's hermit-cottage ancient Queen Kausalya came,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd aa cc cc ee ee Xc bb ff Xd gg hh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011000110101 101010101011001 111110111010111 1110101010110001 101100101110101 1110100000101001 101010100010101 101011100011101 101010101011101 111010101000101 101011100100111 101010101010011 111011101110111 101010101001101 101011101000101 101111101010111 111001001011001 101110101010101 111010011010100 101011101010101 111110100110101 111011111001101 101010100110101 101111100110101 111010110101001010 1011101000101110 1011001001010101 101110101110101 101010101010111 101010111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, in, their, thy, like, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, like are repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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