Name Of God by Sant Tukaram: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Name Of God that begins with:

He who utters the Name of God while walking
gets the merit of a sacrifice at every step...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXabcXcddeeebccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101110 10100010111001 01001010100 110111110 111011 11100101110 1010001 101111001 10010010100 011010101 01110010001001 1010001 10111001 10111001 101110010 10111001 101 0100000111 00100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 767
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • 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; of, one, what, cannot, be are repeated.

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

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

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