This is an analysis of the poem The River Is Anjana that begins with:

The name of the river is Anjana, on its bank dances Khanjana!
Not a bird but his black eyes dance - ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXaX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010010010010110100 10110111 101101000110101 111011101 0101110111111 11110101101010101 110110010011 11111101110101 101001011 110001010 010010111000101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, my, i are repeated.

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