This is an analysis of the poem I Have Seen Bengal’s Face that begins with:
I have seen Bengal’s face, that is why I do not seek
Beauty of the earth any more: I wake up in the dark...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXcdb XXXXcd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011011111 10001101111001 110111101100100111 0011111111010 111010110101 11111011011001 1111110001001 1111010011 101001000 100111101111010 10100010011110101 11010110010101 0110101010111100010 111101100101 10101110011011101 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, on, s are repeated.
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