This is an analysis of the poem In Damodar Lake that begins with:
In Damodar lake, near Girnar hill, Mehtaji frequently took bath.
Poor sweepers full of devotion for Hari approached him...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcdAXX bAXcXXdA XXXAbXA XbXA XXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,7,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001110110010011 11010010110011 11010010 11110111101101111 01001110110010011 111110101110 10100100101111 11111011 01001110110010011 100110001001100 11010010 011110100101010 11110001 1010111110010010001 01001110110010011 101111110111010 00101101 111001010010 01001110110010011 1010101101111011 10011100011001011 01001110110010011 1101101111001010 1011100011110101 11101011110 01001110110010011 11111111111111010101 1001100110 111001001100 01001110110010011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, for, not, care are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bath at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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