Tentacles Of Time by Kabir: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tentacles Of Time that begins with:

Sadho Ye Murdon Ka Gaon
Peer Mare, Pygambar Mari Hain ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXaXaXaXaXXbXX a c bdbd edbe bdbX cXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,1,1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011 11100101 1011010 1010110101 1011110 1010110101 10110100 1010110101 011110 1010111101 10110100 1010100101 101110 11010101 101011 11010110 101011 10010 11000010001 0111011001 0111011 0110011 01010111 011011 011111 100110001111 1111001 011011 010111001 010111001 001101 0111101101 101101 11010110 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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