This is an analysis of the poem The Birth Of The War-God (Canto Fourth ) - Rati's Lament that begins with:

Sad, solitary, helpless, faint, forlorn,
Woke Káma's darling from her swoon to mourn....

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeXffggffXgffeeffccaahhXXcciiddjXbbjjffccggffccffkkffllbbaahhiijjkkffaaffllaaffggllddmXbbgggXnnffffeeggccccbbjjffXommccbbgghhjjffbbcchhffccccaafflXeeaafflliiooccffggbbhhffaXggjjbbjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 188,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 111000101 1101010101 0101001101 11110100001 1101010101 11011101110 11010111110 101111101 1101011110 1101011101 11110011101 1101100101 0101110111 1111010101 11001010111 1111001101 111100111 1101010100 1111100101 111111101 0111010101 1101010101 1011010101 11110101 1111010111 1111110101 1101111101 11111101110 11111011010 111101011010 11010011010 0101110101 0111001101 11110100011 1111111001 10110101110 01011011010 1111111111 1111001101 0111110001 111111110101 1101010101 1101111111 1101010110 1101010101 1111010001 11011101001 11010010101 1101000101 0101110101 1001110001 1111010111 11010011101 0111010111 1111010100 1111110101 0111010111 111110110 0111011101 0100111111 1101010101 0101111101 1101001101 1011011101 011110101 0101010101 0101010101 1111110001 0111011111 1001110101 11001011101 1111010101 0111011101 11110110101 101111111 0101110110 1111110111 011111101 1101110101 1011100101 11101111001 1111110101 1001111111 1111110100 1111110101 11111100101 1111000101 11101111111 1011011101 10111101010 010011101110 0111011101 110101110001 1001010101 11001000101 01011100111 0101010101 1101110101 01010101110 1111010101 0011010001 1101110111 1101011101 01001010101 1001001101 1101010001 0111101101 1111011111 1001110101 1001010111 0101000101 0101110111 101011001011 1101111101 11010001101 1101110001 10010101001 1101111101 1011110111 0101011110 1101010011 1111110101 1101000101 1011010101 0111010101 10010010111 0111001101 1111011101 1111001101 1011010101 1011010101 1101100101 1101010001 11010010101 1101111101 1101111011 1001010101 1001110101 11110101001 111111010010 11110101010 1111010101 1101011111 1011010101 0101110111 1100110101 010100101 1101100101 1101000101 11110000100 1111000101 1101110101 111110101 1101010101 01001110001 1001010101 1101010101 10010111110 1101010101 1111110101 110111101 01010100101 1101011100 110010110101 1110000101 1101010111 1001000101 010110101 1101011101 10010111001 0101110001 0111111101 11011111001 1101011101 1101110111 0101010101 0101000101 1011010101 1101111110 1101000101 1101000101 101010100101 11110100101 11010101111 1101000101 101110101001 0101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8297
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1567
  • Amount of lines: 188
  • 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, and, my, in, i, thy, to, for are repeated.

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

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