This is an analysis of the poem Indra that begins with:
DOWN to the sand-covered earth.
Straw from the harvested fields soiled our feet; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdceeXcb cdfaXeeXgXXffXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 1001001111 10011 10010 1101 1010110 1101 10010111 101101 1011 11011 1010010 11 1110 01001 1001 10011 1101 11111 11101 10111110 110101101 1010110 111110 1011 101100 101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 350
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from, our, dust, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hear is repeated.
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