This is an analysis of the poem The Painful Wail that begins with:
Consumed with grief I am, I get relief in no way
O circumambient waters of the Ganges drown me...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bc dd cc dX cc Xb dXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111101011 1100010001011 1110010100100 1100110101010 10001001000010 1000101110010 00100111100010 1101001010110 11010010110 1101101001101 00100100101001 011101001011 1110010101101011 10001001000101010 11011111010 1101010110110 01111011 1110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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