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

Far in the north Himálaya, lifting high
His towery summits till they cleave the sky,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXbbccddeefXgghhaahhiijjggaaddaabbjjkXlleeddccbbkkllccbbeeffkXllffaahhiiddhhXhaaeejjgXcclliiddbbffiibbcXbbmmhXXXiiddllhhaaaaiicckkllhhffgXfXbbhhXaggcckknnccggaakkcXbbiibbcchhbbffbbbbiiiiggfXhXffbbggddkkcckkeecciicccXggeeiiaaiiaaffccaallbbaabXiiffbbllbbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 316,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001100101 00101011101 1011010101 1001100100 1111010101 0111000111 0101110101 0110011111 1101010101 01110010101 1101010101 1101000101 1111010111 0111110100101 1101010101 1101000101 1101000101 1101110111 1101010101 110110111001 1101010011 1111010111 1001101111 11110010101 1101011111 01011111001 1101110101 1001000101 1101011101 0101100101 1011110101 101100100001 1100010101 10110010101001 1111111101 0101000111 1101010101 0111010101 1100111001 0100101010011 11001011101 1101010101 10110010101 0100100101 11011100101 01110100101 1101111101 0101010101 11010101001 1101000101 1111011101 0101010101 1101110101 1001000101 10001010011 1101010101 11010100101 1011111001 1001011101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1101110101 111101010011 10011110101 0101000101 0110110101 1011110101 11111100110 1101011111 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 010101101 110111001001 11010101001 0101011101 1101011001 1101010101 10110110101 1011001111 1101110101 0101000101 1111010101 0101010101 1111011101 0101100011101 1011111101 1101000101 0101100111 1111010100 10010000101 1100100101 1101100100 011110101 0011110101 0101010101 1011110001 110100111001 1001010111 1101000101 011010101 0101000101 1111011101 1101110100 1101110101 0111000111 1101010001 1101010101 0101011101 01010001000 11011011001 111011010101 10110110101 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 11010101001 0111010101 1100110111 1011010101 11110110111 111010101 01010101001 11001110101 1101010101 101101111001 1111010001 10110111001 1011100101 0101010101 10111101001 0100010100 1101111101 01010100101 10101011101 1111010101 1101010101 100101010101 1101010101 1011011010 0011010101 111010101 10011010101 1100010101 1001111101 0101000101 101110101001 1001001101 11110100111 1101010101 0111010101 1111000101 01010001010 11010100010 1011010101 01001010100 010011001001 11001010101 0101010001 01110101001 11010001001 110110101 1101010101 01011101011 1101010101 01110000101 1101010001 1011110101 1101111101 10010000111 11110100101 01010101001 1101010001 01111100101 1101010101 01001011101 1111010101 10001000101 1101010111 010111001001 1101010101 0111011101 1001011101 0101010001 1001010101 01001001101 0111001101 1101010111 0111010101 11111100011 1001011101 010010011000 1101010101 0011001101 0111010101 0101010111 1111111111 0101011100 0101011111 1101010101 1101110101 1001010101 010100111 1101000101 1101011101 1101000101 10010110101 1111010101 11001100111 0101010101 1011000101 1101110100 01010101001 111011001 1101010111 111101010011 10011110101 1011011101 110110101 0101110101 0101010101 0101010111 0101010001 010011100100 1101010111 1101010111 011101101001 1101000111 1111111001 1111010101 010010110101 1001010111 0101000111 1011101101 1111010101 0101011101 0101110011 11110010101 0101011101 10011010101 1101110111 0101111011 1101000111 10110001001 1101010001 1101110111 0111011101 01001110101 1001011001 01011101001 1001010101 1101000101 110111110 1101000101 1101110111 1001110001 1001010101 1101011101 01001011111 0101010101 1101111111 01100101001 1100110101 1101010101 1111010101 111000011001 1011010101 0011000101 0101000101 1101011111 1111110101 11010100101 11001011101 11001100101 1001011101 1111110101 0101110100 1001000101 1001011101 10010011101 1011000111 0111011101 0101010101 10110101001 1111010101 0101000101 0101110101 1001010101 11001011011 11110011101 1011001101 010111010001 1101011101 0101010101 10110101010 10110101010 0100011001 10101010101 0101010101 0101010101 01010001001 1101000101 0111110101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1001000101 0101110111 1111010101 10010011101 0111010101 1011110101 111101010101 0100010001011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7062
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1270
  • Amount of lines: 317
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; him, of, her, that, to, and, his, in are repeated.

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

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

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