Poem Analysis of At What Auspicious Hour Did You Stick To Me Like A Bindi , O Dark One? by Narsinh Mehta for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem At What Auspicious Hour Did You Stick To Me Like A Bindi , O Dark One? that begins with:

At what auspicious hour did you stick to me like a bindi, O dark one?
Life of my life, I won't forsake you even for a moment, my slim beloved!...

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Rhyme scheme: AB XXX AB Xc AB cd AB XdXAB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,2,2,2,2,5,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101010011011010111 10111101110101011010 1011111011010111101 1110001010111 111010010010100 1101010011011010111 10111101110101011010 1101011111111110101 11111101001110101 1101010011011010111 10111101110101011010 11111011011011 1110110101010011011 1101010011011010111 10111101110101011010 111010111110101 00000110011101010011 1101010011011010111 10111101110101011010
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 19
Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, at, to, my, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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