This is an analysis of the poem The Naulahka that begins with:
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid--
Oh, that was at the birth of time! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXXcd efef XgXahhifhbjfXXkaXaddldeflX hfhfdhmh hhXhhhnh aeaehhaa aiaai abaaXjjghb dddhh hhdXcchhjjhhbbjjhh ddad cafa fifi knknenmmmmlX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,26,8,8,8,5,10,5,18,4,4,4,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011111 11110101 11011111 11010101 1101111010 11011011000 11011101 110110101 01011101 11111101 11110101 11110100 1101010111 0011010100 1111111111 1111010111 1111111101 1011110111 11110101001 11101010011 11010111101 1101011111 1111101101 0111010101 1001000100 1101011111 1101011100 0101011101 1101001111 010100 10010101010100100 1 1010110100111100 101 101001001110010 0101 10101110111110100 10 101000111 101010100 101000111 101010100 10100010110101 1010101 10101010110101 10100111 0011001 00101001 0010110110101111 111 1010101 1011101 1010111010101010 1011111 1010101 10101 10101001 10101 111 0100 1010101 1010101 1101101 10100101 111101 0101101 11101111 1101011 110101 0101001 011101 1010011100 1111101 011111 0101100 011111 111011111 01110101 1010110101 1011110101 11100111111 1010011111 11011101 01010101 11010101 01011100 11011101 01011101 11011101 11111111 110011101 11111111 11110111 01011101 11111101 11110101 10010101 11011101 11010101 11111101 01110101 010101 11010101 010001 01111101 111101 01110101 010101 1001001 1011 1001011 1111 0111011110 11011 111110010 11011 001001010010010 01101 1001001 1011 1001001 1101 00111110101110 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; and, both, i, love, my, of, to, lie, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, the, of are repeated.
The author used the same word because 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 lie, dead are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Naulahka;
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