This is an analysis of the poem Goodbye Party For Miss Pushpa T.S. that begins with:

Friends,
our dear sister ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabXc aXddeae efggd dgabfh XfX efeag hedegcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,5,6,3,5,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110 0010110 0111 1 111001 010110 111101 11000110 1111001010 101010 110010110 10111011001 1010 110010 0101100 010101100 010101 1110100111 0111 11011001 010010 01101011 0111010 111101 1010110 10110010 011011010 01011001101 11101110 10111010 0101111 010100010 101010101 110111000010 1011101 1011010 001010 111100110 111101001 1100110 01101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sweetness, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sweetness is repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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