This is an analysis of the poem Citizens' Lament that begins with:
Spake Sumantra chariot-driver waiting by the royal car,
'Haste thee, mighty-destined Rama, for we wander long and far,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bX cc aa dd aa ee cc aa bb ee aa cc ff ee gX hh ii gg ff jj Xb bb cc gX jj gXXgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100101010101 111010101110111 110010101010101 101010111110110 1010110000011101 101010101010101 101110101011101 101000110011011 101011100011101 11111101111101 101010101010101 101010101010011 110010101010101 101010101010101 111010101010101 101011101010101 111110101010101 1010111111000101 111111101010011 10101010101111 1000101001010101 1001110101110011 101011001010101 111111101011101 101001000010101 101010101010101 101010101000101 101001111010101 101010101111101 101010101110101 1010101010101010 1010111000101010 111011101110101 111011101010101 111010100010101 011011010110101 10101111010101 101010101010101 101110111011101 1010110110111001 1010101000100111 101011101011111 1010111000101001 101011000011101 1110001001010101 101100101011001 110010101010111 111010101010101 111010111110101 101010101010101 1100101010101001 1010111001110111 111010101011101 1111101111101010 101011101001101 111010101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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; rama, and, for, to, her, thou, in, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Citizens' Lament;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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