This is an analysis of the poem The Pariah - Legend that begins with:

WATER-FETCHING goes the noble
Brahmin's wife, so pure and lovely;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdedffgahce ijefdihfhg kjicXjgXjdhf aXbagkgjdgddg kijXXggfcdXXXfdkdkaXdXdcbdX dcljjjbjXXdagXbfcffjcjXbhX diXfXjcfclcimX deggcjgk gXcemjgdXf fddgfhhXXjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,12,13,27,26,14,8,10,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10111110 101001010 1010101 10001010 11101010 11001110 1010101 10111010 10101110 00101010 01101010 10001010 0010001 10111010 10101010 101001010 10001010 10101010 001010010 1010101 00101010 10101010 0010101 11111011 10101010 00101010 111010010 10100100 10111011 00101010 1011111 10101010 10101000 11101010 0011101 11111110 100011100 11111110 11111110 1010111 10101011 10111010 10101110 00101110 11001110 10101110 10101110 1010101 10101011 10001010 1010111 1001110100 1010100100 10101011 10100010 1011001 10101010 01101110 111111100 1001000110 1011001001000 10111101 10110110 10101111 11101110 1110111 10101010 00101010 10111010 10101010 1011001010 101111010 10101010 00111010 10111010 100101010 10100110 10111111 1110101 10101110 11101011 10101010 10101110 0010101 10101100 00110010 111110010 1110101 101111000 10011010 10100101 00101110 1000101 00101110 11111010 10101010 1100101 100101110 10111110 10100010 1110101 100101110 10101010 101111000 1110101 11101010 100111010 00101010 11101110 10101010 1010101 11101010 011010010 1010010010 00101001 11110110 10111110 10111010 1100101 10111010 10101110 101010010 1110101 100001010 11111110 11101010 10101010 011001010 01101101 00101010 10111010 10111010 0110101 101001110 01111010 10101010 11100010 1001001 11101011 11101011 10011100 10111010 11111010 10101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 145
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, it, she, what, silence, in, ever, he, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, he, thousand, if, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ever connects the lines.

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