This is an analysis of the poem The Birth Of The War-God (Canto Fifth ) - Uma's Reward that begins with:

Now woe to Umá, for young Love is slain,
Her Lord hath left her, and her hope is vain....

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeaaffbbggbXhhiibbggbbjjffddkkccffaahhbbccbbiiccdellbbgghhllcXdeddjjggbbjjcckkiibbcchhcXccmmllddllaaccjjdXlljjggffccaabbllaabbccaakknnffoobbccddXbdeggccccbbaaggppbbllddaabbddlXppbbccbbddaaqqaaaaccffggddmmllccffbbbbffkkppbbkkiiaajXcXddggffddmmbbaaccd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 410,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110111101 0111010101 110110101 1011010101 1101011101 0101010101 1011011111 1011011100 10110111001 1111110101 1111010101 1011000101 1101010111 1101011111 1111110111 1011011101 0101011101 1111010101 1101011111 1111010100 1101010111 1011000101 11010001011 1101111101 1111010111 1101010101 0101011001 1001000101 1011111111 1011010101 1001010101 0101010111 1101111101 0101110101 1100010101 1001011101 1011010101 10010101001 0101111101 11110100101 1011000101 1111000101 1101011101 11001000101 0101010011 11000110101 1001010111 0100101101 0101011101 0101010101 1001101101 1111000101 1001100111 1111010011 1001011110 1101010100 1101010001 10001010101 1101110101 001100001001 11110111001 11101000101 0111110101 01001010101 1101010101 1011010101 0111011101 11010001001 0110110101 1111001100 11001011111 0110011101 0100110111 0011111111 1101010101 0101111101 1101000101 01010000101 1101110111 0011010101 1101001101 01011011101 0101011101 1011010101 1111111101 1101010111 1111110101 11011100101 111101011 01010010111 1111011111 0101010101 1111110011 1111010100 1011010111 111010100 1101000101 101111001 1001001101 1011000101 1101010101 1101000101 1011110101 11001000101 01111111010 11010001010 1111011101 0101010101 11011001001 1111000111 0101010001 0111111100 1101000111 11011010101 10110010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101111101 0111110101 1011001111 1001110101 0011000101 1101010101 0101000101 1111010101 11001010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101010001 0101010101 1101010111 1101011101 11000010101 0111111100 1101011101 10110011101 1101010101 1101010101 11011111010 10110011010 1101010101 111100111001 0111000101 0101010101 11000010101 11110100101 1010000101 1101011101 1101010111 0111110111 110100110100 0101000101 1101010011 110010100 0101011101 01110011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 01010101001 0101010101 1101010101 1101100101 100101010101 1111011101 0111010101 1101110101 111001010001 1101010101 1011110011 1111110101 1111011001 0101010111 1111011101 1111011101 1001001101 1101000101 11001011101 1101001101 1111010110 1110001001 10010101010 100100101101 0101000101 1111111101 0101010101 1001010111 1011011111 1101011101 1101010101 10101010101 1111110101 11011011 1101011101 1111010101 11010101001 1001111101 1001011101 0101111111 11001110111 1111011111 0101011101 1101010111 1111011111 1111111111 0101010101 1111010101 1101011111 11010100111 1001010101 1111011101 0100011101 0101011001 0101011101 1011111001 1101110101 11101011111 1111000101 1101011111 1011011111 11110101011 1101011101 1101111101 1101010101 1101110101 110101100001 1111110101 10011100111 1111110001 0111111101 110111111 1011111101 11001010101 1101011111 1101110101 10110111010 01011111 0101111110 0101110101 10010101001 0101010101 0101000101 1101001111 1011010111 1011010101 0101000101 1001010101 0111111101 1101010101 0101010111 111101111 110011100101 101110111001 1101011101 0101010101 110110101 0111111101 01110011101 11010111010 0101010101 1101000101 0111010101 01001011111 1101001101 10011000101 1101110110 1101010101 1001011111 1111010111 1011010111 0101011101 1101010101 1110111101 111010111 1101010111 1001001001 1101110111 1101000101 1011111101 0101010101 0111010101 1111110101 0101011101 0111011101 1111011101 110100101 01010101010 0110111100 1001110101 0001010011 1101010101 11010001001 1101100101 1101110101 1111110101 1011010111 10010100100 1111000101 1011110111 1001010111 1111010101 0100010101 0101111101 100101001001 0100110101 0101011101 11110110010 10010101110 01111111001 1101011101 11011110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010100101 1101011111 1011000101 10110101001 0101010011 0101001111 11110100101 1111011101 1101010110 1111010111 0101000101 01011011001 0101010001 1101010001 1111011101 11110100101 1111010101 1011010101 1001110101 1001010101 1101011101 01010011110 010110011 1001001101 01001010101 1101000111 1011111110 0111001100 1101010101 1111110001 1101011101 1101011101 11010111110 111100100010 1001111101 0111010101 00101011101 1011011111 0101010110 1110011101 1111010111 0111010101 1101010001 0101011110 1001110101 10010011101 1001110101 11010100101 0101010111 10010101001 010010111010 01010001010 100101001001 0101011101 1111010111 111101011 11011000101 0101010001 1101010001 0101110101 1101001101 00110110101 11001011101 1011110111 0111111101 110101101 1111011101 0101010101 1111010101 11110111001 1101110101 11010011001 1101010101 1111010101 11010101010 01010101010 11010101001 0101110101 11010100101 01010010001 1111010101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1110011101 0101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1111011101 1111011101 1101100111 1111010101 1011010101 11101101010 0101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 18017
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3296
  • Amount of lines: 410
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, woe, and, to, it, in, of, thy, with, his, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, red, a, in, the, his, what are repeated.

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