This is an analysis of the poem Raja Rao that begins with:
Raja, I wish I knew
the cause of that malady....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcd edc df dgXc Xcdh idgb jijc XhbX fcbX bb hie ied kk db dXXabih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,3,3,2,2,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 0101100 1011101 01110 11110111 01011010 10100010 1111010101 111110100110 01111011011 101110101 1010010100 0010101 0110010 1110010011100010 0011111000101010010 10011010010 0100101010 1111010011 101010101011 101110010110 001010100001 1000111 01111 0101000 11110 010011 1010101 1010 1100011 1111001 001001 1010101 1000010 110111001010 111111010100 11110110100100 1101010 001000111 1101110111 1111011011 1010111010 011110111010 11001010 110101100 101110010101 11011010110 1100100100 1110110100 1010011111 11010 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, and, of, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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