This is an analysis of the poem Krishna Complains About His Older Brother that begins with:

O mother mine, Dau (Balram)forever teases me.
you never gave birth to me,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabaacaddcXeXebfXfXgdg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110000101 1101101 11110010 001111 11011010101 1100101 111101 10110 110110 0110111 100111010 11111 1010101 111101 1101101 11110101 100101101 1001101 1010100010 10001 11111110 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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