This is an analysis of the poem This Time I Shall Devour Thee Utterly, Mother Kali! that begins with:
This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali!
For I was born under an evil star,...
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabc XdXcd bcefXXffaXbXe X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,13,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011101011001010 1111101101 111101110100010 110101111111111 11010010 11101101 10111 011110010110 111101 01111001 11011111 11011 11011011 111100011 111111010 110111 010010 111101 10010 1111101 11111111 111101 11110100 01010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, with, black, my are repeated.
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