This is an analysis of the poem King Trisanku that begins with:
Viswamitra the Magician,
By his spells and incantations,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX bcbcXbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10000010 10111000 10101100 11001010 10101010 11101010 00111010 011010010 11101010 10101010 10111110 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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