This is an analysis of the poem Lift Your Veil, Mischievous Girl that begins with:

Lift your veil, mischievous girl, for Vitthal gazes at your body!
The lotus of your body blooms like the full sixteen-digited moon!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbA XbA XA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001110101110 01001101101011001 1111001110101110 110101100 1100100100010 1111001110101110 1111010111101001 1111001110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • 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; your, body are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word body at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Lift Your Veil, Mischievous Girl;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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