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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  • summary of The Painful Wail;
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  • history of its creation;
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