This is an analysis of the poem Fall Of Kumbha-Karna that begins with:
Once, more healed and strong and valiant, Lakshman in his arms, arose,
Safe behind the gates of Lanka humbled Ravan shunned his foes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc XX dd ee ff gg hh fX bb bb hh hh hh hh gg aa gg hh bb bb hh ii jj iX ff eX ff bb hhXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111111101000101 101010101010101 101010100010101 1000010101011011 101110101010101 1000101001010101 1110101000111001 111010101010110 101010101010111 101010101010101 111010101010101 101011101010101 1010110010010101 1010101001110011 101011001010111 101010100010101 1011100101010101 101001100111111 111010100110101 101110101110101 101010101111101 101010101000101 111011101111101 101010101110101 101010101010101 10101010101011 111100100011111 001111101001101 100010101100111 1010101010101001 001110101010101 101010101001001 110011101011001 100110101000101 1010100101010101 101010101010101 101011001010101 101010100010101 101010101110101 110010101010101 110010100010101 101010101010101 110011101010101 1100011101010101 101010101011101 101010101011101 1110101010101001 001110101010111 1011101001100101 1111000101010101 1110100100110111 111010101011111 101110101001101 100010101011101 1001110101110101 111010101010110 101010101110101 111110101010001 101011100010101 1010111010111001 111010100010101 101010101010101 110010101010101 111010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; his, and, of, with, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fled is repeated).
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