This is an analysis of the poem Maha-Bharata, The Epic Of Ancient India - Conclusion that begins with:

The real Epic ends with the war and with the funerals of the deceased
warriors, as we have stated before, and Yudhishthir's Horse-Sacrifice...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaacX defdgaeh ecddf hXeefXg icXfgfcX gg jj kk ff kk aa ii gg aa ff bb ff ff XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,5,7,8,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010011001000001 100111100111001101 01001010010100101001 100101001101001100 0110001010010000101 1100010 101001000100011001 100100010100100000 1010010011010110010 0100101100011111 10111110010010101 00101010010111011 110101100110110100 10101011101001010 101101011100100 101010001100010100 101101001010010001 1011010101000100010 11010 11001010100100110 100101011001000101 1101011000101110 0101011001101010 11010010101001111 011100011001101110 1000101010010000101 1100101110100010 101100001010111101 00100110010110110 1011111111110100 0110100110010101 100110101010101011 11110101011100 100 101010100110101 101011001011111 1010001011100111 101010101010011 111100101110101 111010101110111 0011101011101001 001010101111101 10100101010101001 1010100101110101 101010101010111 111010101001111 111011001011111 101011001010101 001010001011001 1100000101110101 100010101010101 001011101010101 0100011011101010 111001100010010010 0010101001010001 1010100101010101 1110101000010101 1110111010101001 11111010101001010 1010101010100010 101110101011001 1011100100010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • 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, on, then, celestial, to, seek, by, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words this, seek are repeated.

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

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