This is an analysis of the poem Indian Song that begins with:

SHADOWY-PETALLED, like the lotus, loom the mountains with their snows:
Through the sapphire Soma rising such a flood of glory throws ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010101010011 1010010101010101 111010101000101 1010100111010101 101010111010101 111011100010001 101010101011101 101010101001101 101010101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; , all are repeated.

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