This is an analysis of the poem The Saddhu Of Couva that begins with:
When sunset, a brass gong,
vibrate through Couva,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdefabaXghXXfX ecXcibXjdiekXXccX becceXgcb lleijhelXlckedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,17,9,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 10110 01111110100 1011011011 1001000101 111101010001 101101001 011110100011 1011 01110101010 100010 10100100 10100100110 110101 1101000110 10010111010 1110001001 10101101001100 1111001 11111011 11110101001000 101010101110 00101010110 01111010 0110001111001 1110111010 11001010 1110110011 1011110101 101011100101 0010110 11010111100 1001101 101001 110101010010 1111110101010 1111011111 1011001001 10110001010 1111001101101 1111010001 01011010111 10010111110 010110 11110100 1111010100 0110111 011111100 01011110 110110010 101000111 10111011 100001000101 011010110101 1101101011 100110111 110010 010010 10101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sacred, my, i, suppose are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines government is repeated).
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