This is an analysis of the poem Meditate On Kali! Why Be Anxious? that begins with:
Meditate on Kali! Why be anxious?
The night of delusion is over; it's almost dawn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXXacXdaXXXXbcXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101010 0100100100111 01010010 1101011001101010 101011 0101101111 010100010010 1100 10111111 111100110110 001001 1110100110101 111010010 010101110101 10110 10011010010 1110110 0101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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