This is an analysis of the poem When He Himself Reveals Himself that begins with:

When he himself reveals himself,
Brahma brings into manifestation ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaa bccd bee Xfbd XddXgh gch f iiaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,4,6,3,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 1010010010 1111001 1010001 1010001 1010001 110011001 10010100 01001 10010001101 0100010 11000010 111001 110010 10100101101 101001001101 101001011010 10101010110 10100101101001 1001011010 101001010100 101101001010001 0110 100100101010010 0011010101 0101010011 1010100100101 101011100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, in, he, and, himself, soul, seen, within, supreme are repeated.

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

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

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

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