This is an analysis of the poem Dearer Than Life Is The Vaishnava To Me that begins with:
Dearer than life is the Vaishnava to me, he is ever in my heart
I leave behind all the pilgrimages, austerities and joys of Vaikunth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXa XXaB bbB XXXB XaaB XaXB XabbB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100100011010011 1101101000100011010 100110 00110101011100 110100001100 11011011111111000111 110110010001 1110101100010010011101 101011010111111101011 10110010001 100101011010011110 110011100110010 100101101011010 10110010001 111110111111 111011101111 10111101 110110010001 1101011010011110 111011011111 11111011111 10110010001 1111111110 11111111 101010101101 1100101010101 110110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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; to, my, i, me, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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