This is an analysis of the poem The Last Suttee that begins with:
Not many years ago a King died in one of the Rajpoot States.
His wives, disregarding the orders of the English against Suttee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdef gchhhc ebcXcb idjjjd ebfffb gkbbbX aceeec lclllc jlmmml ccbbbc abjjjb gmdXXX lfeeef iknnnk fjlllj bmbbbX ccbbbc glbbXX XennnXXejcccj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1100010110100101 0110100100010011 111010010110101 110001101100101 110101110101 0101011010010001 010010110111 1011101 0011101 11110111 1010010101 111100101 0111111 11010111 0100101 110101001 110101110 10101101 11000101 0010110101 111111 111100101 1011001001 1010100101 1011111 111101101 010101 0010100101 1101111001 01011001 11110111 01110101 1111010 01010111 1111111101 0010111101 11000101 11011101 110101 110100011 110100101 01110111 1101001 0111001001 1101001 1111111 100010111 1010100111 1110101 111011101 010111 10101111 110110111 0111011101 1011101 111011101 1011101 1110011101 110110111 110110101 1110101 110100101 10100111 1011110111 1101011001 10111001001 10100101 01010101 110101 10010101 100100100 100100100 1001011 11011101 0100111 110010101 010110111 1110110111 111101 11110101 1101010 111100101 11110111 111010111 1101010 11011001 010101 1111010111 010111111 111010111 1100101 11110101 010111 11011101 0010000101 0011100101 1111111 1110101101 111011 1110110101 111111101 010100101 1010101 11110101 110001 101110101 0100100101 0111001100 1010101 11110111 010101 1111010101 1010110101 10011101 1011011 01110101 010111 11101111 1101100101 110111111 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 122
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, and, where, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is 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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