This is an analysis of the poem Arhan that begins with:
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the
glance...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdcddccbcbefefgghhahiiedjdggeXbXcbejbjikildddkjcjemlmmll X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110010010 1 00111010101010 1 0011111000110 01 00111010001010 1 11101110101010 1 0010100101010101 001110100011101 101011101011 111 001010010100011 1 001010101010101 1 1010101010100101 101010100010101 110111011011 101 111111111000 111 11110101100111 111010100010111 101010100101 0101 1011111100101010 0 101000101010001 101000101010101 1110111000101 100 1011111011100 110 0010010011110 1 11111110 111 0101 111111101110 100 1010001010111 1 11001010001011 1 1001101010111 11 10101010111010 1 1010100101010 101 10011010100111 1 101010100010 101 101010101110 1 101010101010101 110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1085
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, ever, me, these, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, ever, these, pass, sun are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases pass, sun connect the lines.
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- summary of Arhan;
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