This is an analysis of the poem Maha-Bharata, The Epic Of Ancient India - Book Xii - Aswa-Medha - (Sacrifice Of The Horse) that begins with:

The real Epic ends with the war and the funerals of the deceased
warriors. Much of what follows in the original Sanscrit poem is...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdeffXdgcbghi ajceaddkbljl bgmXnmnl Xcaoagd lbcmmpXXc capdcmgbhfac l q ll cX nn ee rr ll ll aX ee jj aa dd cc aa jj cc cc ll dd dd jj ll gg aa cc X q oo aa qq cc aa cc qq aa cc gg ll aa jj aa dd X b cc dd dd dd dX aa XX ll aa ee cc cc ee cc bb dd cc a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,8,7,9,12,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101001101000001 1001011000010010100 1010000101000101000001 11000100101101011 01010010001011001 10001101001010001 1101100110100100 10101011000011110000 10110010001100010011000 1011001001100100111 010100100100101 10101001110010101 0110101010110110 11111011001011 01001101101011010 11000101010 010010101000010100010 100010100110101001 1100001011111011 010011010010001010011 001001001110111010 1110100101110001000 010110111111110 01010011010010001 10110111101011011 1011010011111001101 1101000101000101110 1 101101001010101001 1011010111010011 10100111111110100 10010111101010001010 011011101010010101 0111011110001000 110011011110010101 01110011011101 100100110110010 1100001010010100001 100101000100100101 100101100010010 00101101001101011 10010001000101010101 00110100001 0101001111011101001 1101010010100101011 11110101001010100 10110101001100010 1000101011011100010 10001010010100100010 001001101010010000 0110101111010101 110010010 10001010101010101 10010000100111101 110110100100010010 110010110100110100 100101011010100001 0100001010101001000 10101110101010101 110000111010110101 101001000010000101010 10100111001000100 01010000100111101 01001010110101 1 0100 100010101010101 1001010101010101 101001001000101 101010100010101 11101010100101 101010001010101 111010111010101 101010100011111 010010101011101 100010101010111 1011001000101001 111110101111101 101010101110101 101100101010101 101010101010101 1010101010100010 101010101000101 101100110010101 101010101010101 1001100100010101 101010101010101 101011111010101 101011101010101 100010101000101 1110000101010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 10101111000101 1001011101010101 101100101011001 100010101011101 100100100010101 101011001111101 011111101110111 111010100010111 1010101010100101 001011001111101 101110011010101 101011101011101 101011101010101 100110000010101 1000111010010101 110010100010111 100001101011101 101010111111101 101010101110101 101010101010101 1010010101010101 100101010101001 111010100110101 1 010 101010101111111 10110001100101 101100111010001 1010010100010101 1101101010010101 101111101011101 1011100101010111 101110101011101 1010101001101001 1010101010100101 101000111000111 100110101010101 11100111011101001 100011101010111 101110111010101 1010010101110101 111110101110101 101010101010011 001000111110111 110010101010101 111010101010101 101011101110111 101110101100101 100010101010101 101001100010101 100100101001001 101010101010101 101100101010101 11111101001010 1011101010101010 1 1010100 1000101010101001 101000101010101 101011001010101 101010101010101 111001101011101 111010101011001 1011101010101001 1010010101010101 101011001100101 101010001001001 101101001010001 10101010100100101 101010101010101 110010101100101 101011000010111 001010001110101 101010101010101 101011000010101 101110101010101 101011101010101 101010101010101 1000101010110101 111010101010101 111110101110101 101011001011101 110010101010101 101010101011001 101010001010101 101010001111001 111010101010001 1010101010100101 101111001010101 101010101110101 101010101010101 0110101011100101 001011101110001 111011101000111 101110100011001011 1010011101010111 101011100010101 101010101100101 100110111010101 100111001000101 100100101010101 101110101010101 101010101010101 00101001010010101 101010101000101 111110101001101 110011100010101 1 101001 111110101110101 101010101011101 111010101010101 110010101011101 111110101000101 101110101011101 101010101010101 101010101000101 010010101011101 100010101010101 101110100010101 1010101010101001 101010101010101 1100101110101001 1 1 101011001010011 101110101011101 101110101010101 101011011011111 1010101001010001 111011110010011 111111001011101 001011011110111 101010100010111 1010101010110100 001001001010101 0011101010010101 101110100110101 101010100010101 111010111010101 101011001011001 111010101010111 1011010101010001 101100111100101 1010011101010001 111000101110111 110001111110101 101010101010101 101010111100101 101010111010101 101011101010111 101110100100101 101100101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 102
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 247
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, in, to, with, from, for, day, six are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, day, six, unto are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, may, and 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 of, the are repeated).

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

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