This is an analysis of the poem Bibhishan's Warning that begins with:

Twenty warriors armed and girded in the Council Hall arose,
Thirsting for a war of vengeance, hurling challenge on the foes,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff gg gg ff dd fX bb gg gg gg eX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010011100010101 101010101010101 110010101010101 101010101011101 1011100100100101 1010001001011101 1011101010101001 1010101001100101 1110101011000101 1110101101011101 111010101110101 1010011101011101 111011101010101 111010011010101 1101100110101010 1110101010101010 111011101000101 101011111010101 111010111011011 10100101110101 1010001010101110 1101101000111110 101100101010101 1010111001010101 100010011010101 101010100010001 100110101001101 1011100100010101 100110101011111 10101010101011 100110101000101 1011101011111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; and, to, of are repeated.

    The author used the same words think, what, take, render, listen at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Bibhishan's Warning;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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