This is an analysis of the poem Brahmā, VişņU, ŚIva that begins with:

I THE DARK
In a worldless timeless lightless great emptiness...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bX XXXX XXXX XXXX cddeafghX dgid hdibc XXXX a cXchjXahidbdckjhbbbXig bddXdXdiaXe XXXX ggkdekeflkXgiX e XidXhbdcXbdb bddgciiihjdb XXXX XXXl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,4,4,9,4,5,4,1,22,11,4,14,1,12,12,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 001010101100 11101 10101110100 1010110101 11000101010 10110100100 1101010110 110101010 10100100110 10101101100 1010100101 100010010010 10001000110 10011000000 001010110101 0111001 1011 10110 11001 11001 101011 111010 01101 11101010 0111001 01010110010 110101 001001001 00101 0100101010 10010 10011 1011110000 10010100110 10101001100 1100100100 1010 0010110 011100 011010 1011 011010 11001 1111 10101 01011 010010 0101 1101 010110 100100 01101 01001 10110 11110 11001 1101 0100100 0111 001001 1010 1001 0010100 1011 11011 10110 010010 010010 10110 11010 10001001010 10110100110 10010100010 10100100100 110110101001010 11011 100010 1001 10010 0100100 0010110 10101 11110 110110 00111 1111 11010 11111 1010 011100 01110 1011010 110101100 1101001 0110101011 110 0101011 0101101 001001001 10101 01000101 1011111110 110110 01001100 001011 010110 1010010 110101100 10100010 1010011 01101010101010 101011 101011 11010110100 10100101010 10101010000 10110101000 1010101000 101011011 110001010 11010101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 122
  • 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; his, age, its, he, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words na, through, like, his, with, the, he are repeated.

    The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Brahmā, VişņU, ŚIva;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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