This is an analysis of the poem To India that begins with:

O INDIA, India, O my lovely land —
At whose sweet throat the greedy English Snake,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacccccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110010011101 1111010101 0111111101 11011111001 0101110111 1001111101 01011111001 11010100111 1111110111 0100110111 0101011111 1101010111 0101110101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 664
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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