This is an analysis of the poem Buddha And Brahma that begins with:

The Buddha, known to men by many names -
Siddartha, Sakya, Muni, Blessed One,- ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdefegdhgihbjX kbjlXeXchemnX celdc bhbjfagholeccei bgoXXcXhob kchlnpelgqX aeceadjgcpXebjX nabaXbcacrX cgnbehfckpbcbpnmsa pnofngpnpbcqmag XXecqecgepbaefbjmggbXapjemkcXbm ccbjpkpcrhgbkesceack pdqXXb babpcekkeneggs Xbsnccblkinegc jlfhkkaXmadb cebdirabkhgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,13,5,15,10,11,15,11,18,15,31,20,6,14,14,12,13,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101011101 100101011 1001011001 11001101010 0101010100 0111010001 1100010011 10010101110 01010100100 11110101010 10111101010 01010101010 1100010111 11100101110 1001010101 1101000011 1001011000 01011101010 10010111010 1001000111 01100101110 11011100010 1110110101 0011100 10101 111111010 0111000101 1011100101 1001111111 11011111110 1101010101 0101010001 01110101010 11010111010 1011000101 10010101010 11010100110 1101011101 1111000101 1111000011 01010100010 100110010011 11010111010 0101001001 01110101110 0101011001 11011001010 1110110101 1101001101 1101010101 1011010111 10110101010 1001010001 10010100100 11000101010 0101010101 11110101100 10111110010 0101010011 0101010001 01011100010 101010011 1100011100 11010101010 1111010111 1011111011 0101010111 11100111010 10011111010 1001010101 01011100 01010101010 1101010111 1011010111 0111010001 0101011101 1101010100 0101000111 0100010101 11111100101 0100010101 01110100100 1011010111 0101010101 1100101101 1111011101 1011110101 01010111 111101111 11110111111 1100011101 0101010111 1111010101 11010011111 1111011101 1001010111 11110101100 0101110111 0111000101 1100011111 1101010001 0111010101 11011101011 1101010101 0011011101 0101111101 0111010111 1111011101 1101000101 1101010101 1111011111 1011110111 01010111110 100110101 1111010111 1110010111 1101011101 1001010101 1001111101 0001000111 0111010111 11010010101 0111000101 0101010111 1111010101 0100010111 11011110001 1111010111 11011110 1011011111 1101010100 0111110100 1011111101 0101011101 11111000101 1001010111 1001011100 11111110010 10010111101 1111111111 1001011101 1101010101 1001010101 1001110101 1111111101 11110101 0101010101 0111011111 1111011111 1111111111 1101011101 1011011111 0100011101 0101011101 0111000101 0111111101 1111000101 1101000101 1001111111 1101001101 1111011110 1101110101 1011010101 1001011111 1111010101 1111010111 1111011100 0101100111 1101011101 011101001110 11010011101 1101011100 11011101110 1001111100 1100010101 1011111111 01010111101 10001010111 11011101010 0101011111 010 10010111 0101010100 1111011111 11000100010 01011101110 01010001010 1101111111 1111011101 11001111001 1011011101 00110001010 1001011110 1101110111 1101010101 01001101010 1111010111 01110111001 1111010111 0100010101 1001010101 11001100010 1111111101 1111010001 1101110101 0111010101 1001110001 0111111001 1001001010010 0111010111 1111111111 10011111 1001010101 1010110110 1111111011 1001001111 01000100010 1011010011 10010100110 01111101010 11000011110 1001001011 11010001010 11110101110 0101000101 1111001100 1101010 1110010111 0101100101 1111010111 11111100100 1001000101 11100101110 11110101110 1100100101 11110101010 11111111010 1111001101 01110101 1111100101 1001111100 1111010101 1111010111 01000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 582
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 244
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; his, we, in, and, of, to, you, it, i, point, all, he, our, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, the, and, its, one, as are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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