This is an analysis of the poem The Birth Of The War-God (Canto Third ) - The Death Of Love that begins with:

Is eager gaze the sovereign of the skies
looked full on Káma with his thousand eyes:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeafeeggeehhddfaiiaaiiccbbeeiijjddkXddbbllcXeeiicccciiXmcceebbkkbbddaaiikmiikkkmeekknXiicceekkjjooppcckkbbeecckknnqlaabbjXffkkkXaXbbbbnnbbddqqddbbccccbbbbbbrrkkeecckkjjiiddlldXbbbbllkkbbXXbbddccccbbeeiiaaddccbbbbffddccnneejjeeaacciXccllrroocceekmb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 333,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010001 111100101 101011100101 1101010101 1101110111 0111110101 1101011101 110100111011 1001010101 111110111 1101110101 1101110101 1101011111 1101101111 1111010101 1101110101 1001011111 11010000101 101010011001 01110100101 01001001101 1101110101 1101110001 1101000101 10011001111 0111010111 1111000101 1101110001 1101010011 1110111101 1101010101 0101110111 11011100101 1101110101 11110101111 0101000111 1101011101 10010101001 1011111010001 1011011111 1111110101 01110101101 1001010111 01010101101 1101000101 1001010101 1101110101 010100001101 1101011101 0101111101 11110101001 1101110110 11001111101 11001001111 1111110101 0101110111 1111010101 1101010101 1101111101 11001010101 1101010111 0101011101 110111010110 101110100 11010100101 11011001001 1111011111 1101000101 1110010111 01110010101 1111010101 1101010101 101110100111 111010101 1101010111 1100010111 111010101 1101010001 1111010111 11010000101 1111100110 10011001100 11110100101 1111011101 1011110001 0111010001 111101111 0101010100 11010111001 011100100101 1110000101 01101001110 1101110101 11010011111010 111110111 11010101001 0101011101 1101010111 0111111101 11110101001 1111111101 11010100101 01010101101 1001001101 1011001001 01010010101 11101010101 1101000101 01111111001 1110100101 1011110101 0110010101 10110100101 1101010101 100101101 11110000101 1101010101 01010001001 1111001101 1011010101 11010010111 100100011 1101010110010 1111000101 1101010101 0111010100 100110101 1101011101 010011110101 110110010 11001010101 01001001101 1101010101 0011000101 11001101001 11010101000 01110100101 1101011101 1101010111 0101010101 110110111 0101111111 1101010101 1011110101 1101110111 010010100101 1001110101 1001110101 100110101010 010110010010 11010100101 011100100101 1101011101 0101001101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010111 00110110101 1001010101 1111010101 1001010011 0101010101 1011110101 1001010101 1001010101 01001000101 11011110001 110011100001 1011010101 1101011101 11110100101 0111010101 10011111001 11011000101 1111011111 00111101001 11001010101 1011011101 1101110101 110101000101 0101010001 0011010111 1101110101 1101000101 1111000101 11110111001 1101100101 1111010101 1111111101 1011100101 111100101 1101110101 110101100101 11010010101 1101010101 0111110011 1101010111 1101010111 01010010111 0101010101 0101011111 0101000100 0101010101 1101010101 01010001101 0101000101 0101110001 0101010101 1101110001 0011110101 1101011001 1010010101 1101110101 010011100101 1011000101 1111100101 11010100101 0011001101 1101010101 11001010101 1101011101 1110010100 0101011101 0101010101 111110101 1101000101 1111000111 1101110101 1100010111 10110101001 111010101 111010111 1100010100101 0101011101 1101110101 1111010101 1001011101 0101101101 10111100110 1101001101000 0101010111 01001010001 0111111111 1101010101 01011100101 0101000101 1101010001 1110000101 0101010101 01010111001 111111101 1111010101 1111110111 1111001100 111110101 0101010101 0101001111 11011101010 1111010101 01010100101 1101011101 1110010001 1101010101 1110010001 0101010101 1111011101 111111001 10110110111 0111010111 1111011100 11110100110 1001011111 0111010111 0111011101 1111011101 1101010101 1101000101 1111011101 1001001111 01000010011 1100010011 1011111101 01001011101 10111101001 0110000101 10110010111 11010100101 1101011101 0111110101 1111010111 01010111001 1110010111 10110011111 1101111101 1111110101 1011010101 0101000101 1101011111 11010100101 1111011101 0111000101 10101010101 1011110101 1101010101 1001110101 11010011001 1101010101 11001010101 11110101110 01110110010 11010101010 1101111101 1011010111 1111110101 1111011101 10101110101 11010100001 1101010111 10010000111 1110010111 10011000101 1111110111 1111010101 1101011101 0101010101 100110010010 1011110101 1001010101 1111010101 11110100101 1101000101 1111010111 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 14729
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2704
  • Amount of lines: 333
  • 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; thy, his, and, her, in, how, so, he, she are repeated.

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

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