This is an analysis of the poem Christmas In India that begins with:
Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow --
As the women in the village grind the corn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdX efefdgcX gbgbebhhb ijijXkik glglchih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,9,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101000101010 10100010101 1010101011100010 10101010101 1011101110100011 10101110 1111101010111010 11110011011 111001000101110 10101010101 11111001110111110 00101010101 1110101011101010 11101110111 0111111010101010 10111101011000 110101000101011 11101010101 1011111011111111 10111010101 101111101010001010 101010111001 111100110 11011010 10111010011 110101000101010 10101010101 1011101110001110 1111101111 1010101010101010 100101110011 0010101000101110 0101111101 110101000101110 10100010111 0010001110100011 11101110101 1011011011101110 10101010011 101011010010101010 11101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (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; oh, us, her, behind, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, call are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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