This is an analysis of the poem Friends In Misfortune that begins with:
Long and loud lamented Rama by his lonesome cottage door,
Janasthana's woodlands answered, Panchavati's echoing shore,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee bX bb ff dX Xd cc dd ff dX gg hh iX hh hh ff bb iX dd bb XX XX
- 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010101 1000111010001001 111011101011101 111010101000101 110010101000101 1001111001010101 001111001000101 111010101000101 101010101001101 100110110110101 111110101110101 101010101110111 101110101010111 101010101010101 101010101010101 101100101011101 101010101110111 100101110011010011 110010101010101 101001100010101 111110101010011 111001101110101 101011001010101 011010101110101 100110101110101 1001001001110101 101110101010101 1010101011111011 101011101011001 1110101010010101 100010101000101 101111101010101 111111101110011 11101110101111011 111010111010111 101011001010101 101010100010101 100110101010101 101011001010101 100110101010101 111010101100101 111010101101101 1000111101010101 10111110001101111 101111101010101 101110101110111 1011100100110101 1010101011100101 111011011101010 1010101011101100 101110101011100 1110101010101011
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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, his, thy, of, my, from, in, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, and are repeated.
The author used the same words long, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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