This is an analysis of the poem Bibhishan's Departure that begins with:
This to me Bibhishan answered, as with fiery comrades four,
Rose in arms the wrathful Raksha and in fury rushed before....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd bb cc ee cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011001010100111 101010101010101 111110101011111 111010100010111 110011101010101 111010101110001 10111010010100101 111011101110101 101010101011101 1101010101111001 1010101010101010 1010101011110010 111111101110101 101011101111101 101110111111111 101111011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy, of, to, yet are repeated.
The author used the same word blind at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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