This is an analysis of the poem Ayodrya, The Righteous City that begins with:
Rich in royal worth and valour, rich in holy Vedic lore,
Dasa-ratha ruled his empire in the happy days of yore,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb cc dd ee cc ff gg hh gg ii bb cc hh cc cc gg ii cc dd cc jj cc jj ee jj aaXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101011101010101 1010101000010101 101011101010101 101000101010001 111000101011001 101010101010101 101011111000101 101010100010101 111011101110101 1011111010011101 1011101010111101 101110101100101 101010101010101 101101101110111 100110111110111 101001100110111 1010100101001101 111010011111111 111011101110101 111010101110101 111011001100101 110000101101011 1011101010010101 101110100010111 101010101011101 0111100101110101 101110101011101 100100101011101 111010101011011 100111101001111 10101001001111010 10110101110100010 101010101000101 101011110110101 001100100110101 101010101110101 111010101011101 101011101011101 111010101011101 0011001100111001 111010101011111 10111110010101 1110101011101111 101010111010101 111001101011001 010011001010111 100010100010101 101110101100101 100110101001101 101010101010101 111010101000101 111010101010101 1111101010111101 101110101110001 101110101010101 101010100010101 110010101110101 110011101110101 1100101110110001 111011100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, his, of, and, their, with, not, to, each, as, from, queen, bore are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, queen are repeated.
The author used the same word queen at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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