This is an analysis of the poem Rama's Departure that begins with:
Vainly fought the vengeful Khara, doughty Dushan vainly bled,
Rama and the valiant Lakshman strewed the forest with the dead,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa Xa bb aa cX dd ee ff eX aa gg bb aa aa bb ff hh ff bb aa cc ii dd ff ff ddXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010101010101 1010101010010001 101010100010101 101010101100111 101010101011001 1010101010010101 101110101010001 101010101010111 1111101010100101 10101010010101010 1111001101010101 1110101010100110 111000101000101 111110101110101 111111001111101 111010101010101 1110100101010101 111010101111111 101010100010101 101010101010111 100110101010101 111010101001101 111000101010101 101010111010101 1110100101000101 101111101011101 111010111000101 101011101010111 111110101011101 101110101011111 101011001010001 101010101011101 101011101010111 111010101110101 001110101110011 111010100111101 111110110110001 101010101110101 111010101010111 101110101010101 001010100010101 111010101011101 101010101010101 101000101110101 100110101010101 110110101101101 1110110010101001 1010101001000101 101010100010101 111110101010101 101010101011001 1010011001110101 101010101010101 111010101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 54
- 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, his, ', to, of, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Rama's Departure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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