This is an analysis of the poem O My Mind that begins with:
O my mind,
Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXbabXXXbXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 10010100101001 110111111 010 1101111000 101010100010 1011010100 1110010 0010100001 0101010010 001001101 110101 11110100 1101001010010 1111010010 1101001001 10100101000 1010110 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 654
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
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