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

Now gentle Umá bade a damsel bear
To Śiva, Soul of All, her maiden prayer:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXccddeeffaaccbbccggaaeehhiijjiiccgkkkbbjjiiffccaaccjjaajjkkcceekkggXdjjeehXbblljjaajjiicckgccllmmccaaeekXhhaaiiaagXccjjnnaaccffccaaeeaahhccffeeiiggccaakklljjaaggkkggXdcccchXeehheebbccaaeecccchhhhbbgghhkkccffhhcccXcchhaallhhhhbbiicclleecciicckgbbeoaacce
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 322,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110110101 0101010101 1011001000 1101000101 1101011101 01010001101 101101001001 1011011100 011110101 1111100101 1001110001 01011010101 11110100111 10010101001 110101011 100010101101 11010001001 110010001101 11011100101 1111010101 1100110101 1101110101 11010011101 1101010101 0101010101 1001010101 01010100101 11010011101 1001010111 1001010101 01100101 1010010001 1101010101 1011010101 10010111001 10110100101 1001010101 1111010101 0101010101 11110001001 0101010111 0011010101 1101010001 1111010101 11110101001 11110100101 11110010101 1101011101 1101010101 0111000101 111011101 1101110101 01010100001 0111010101 1101010101 10101011101 1001110101 1101010111 1111011111 1101011101 1101010001 1011011111 1111011101 111010011 1111010111 0111010101 1111011101 1011110101 1111111001 10110111010 11011101100 11111101010 1011110101 1111111101 0010111111 1101110111 1111101101 1111011110 1101010101 10010011101 0111110101 0101001101 1111000101 11011010101 1101110111 0100010101 1111011101 10110100101 10111100111 0101011111 1101010111 1101110101 10110101001 1001010101 1110010101 1111010101 11110010111 1101010101 11110010111 1101011011 11010100101 0111110101 0101111101 1111010101 1111001101 1110010101 1111010101 10110001110 11110010101 0101001101 1011111101 1111110101 110101010111 01011011111 1011110011 101100101 11011101011 011000001000 11010010111 0100101011 11001010101 11010101101 101110101001 01010101101 0101000111 0101000101 0101010101 0101000101 1011111101 0111000111 1011010111 01001111101 0001011101 1101010101 110111001001 01001110101 1001010101 1111011101 0101011111 1101000101 1101110101 1011011101 1111001101 01010001001 1101010011 11001101101 1101110111 11111101001 1101110100 0101010001 11110111001 01010010101 1101000101 11010101101 01110111010 101101001010 1101010111 0101001101 1111010101 10101110111 10011011111 11010101101 1101101111 1101011100 1001010001 10101011101 01010000101 1101000011 100110101100 10110101010 0100011001 1001010101 1011010101 0111110101 1011010101 1001011110 1001011101 1111000101 1101011101 1101011100101 1111000101 1111110101 1111010111 01010101101 11110100101 11110101001 0111010101 0101010101 1101000101 0111111101 11001010101 1100100101 111101111 111101011011 1111010111 0101011111 1111001001 00101011111 10110101001 0111000110 11011101001 111000000101 11110101001 1101010101 0111110101 1101000101 11011100111 01110111001 1011110111 1111001101 1111001101 0110010101 01110111001 1111011101 1111100101 10110111110 1111010101 0101010101 0111010101 1001010101 110111111001 1101011101 1011010011 0101001101 0101001101 1111111111 1101111100 1011010111 0111110101 1101010111 1101111101 11010100011 11010011001 1111010101 1011101001 1001011101 1111110101 10110010101 11010100101 01111010101 0101010111 11010011111 1101100101 0101110001 1111110001 1011110101 1101011101 1111010101 11010010111 1101001100 1101011111 0101000111 01010010101 1011001101 0101010111 11010100100 1001110101 1101010101 1011110111 11010101001 1011010111 1111110101 1111010101 1111001101 0100111101 0111010101 1111010111 0101111101 0101000111 0111010100 1101100101 0101110101 1101000101 110011010 1101110111 1101010001 1101010101 01110100010 1101111111 01110101010 1111010101 0101110101 11010010101 0101001101 0111100111 111111011 1111010101 1011111101 10010111101 0111010101 0101100111 111110101 1101110101 0101111110 1101010101 0101010101 0111010101 1111011101 01010101001 0111110101 11110010101 0101010111 1001111101 0101011100 1101010111 11010101001 1111011101 1100011101 1011001110 1101010101 1101010101 011110111 1111010001 1101010101 110111101 1101011101 1111000101 1111010111 1111010101 0101110101 10010101111 111111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 14316
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2600
  • Amount of lines: 322
  • 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; their, his, of, thou, and, as, by, to, your, thy, her, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, no, of are repeated.

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