This is an analysis of the poem Ravan's Triumph that begins with:
Vain her threat and soft entreaty, Ravan held her in his wrath,
As the planet Budha captures fair Rohini in his path,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee dX ff gg dd dd hh cc dd hh Xf gG gg Xg ff gG ii gg cc gX aaXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101110101010001 101010101100001 101110101010101 101010101010101 011000111010101 10101101011101 101010101010101 10001110011101001 101110101000101 1010010101110101 101110101010111 001110101010111 1010101010011101 1010101010100101 1110111001110101 1001010111000101 11101101001111 101011100010111 111011101110111 101110101010101 111010101011111 101110101011011 111111000110111 111010101011101 101100101010101 101111100011101 101001100110101 101111101110101 1010100010001010 1001110101001101 101001111111111 101010101010101 1001110101010111 101010101000101 011010100111011 101010101010101 011000111000111 101011001110111 100110101110101 101010101010101 111011101111111 0011010101110111 11101011011111 111010100110101 111011001010101 101110101010101 101010101111101 111110100110110 101010101100001 101110100010101 111010101010101 1010101010101001
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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; his, her, and, thy, of, my, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
The author used the same word ah at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ravan's Triumph;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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