This is an analysis of the poem Indrajit's Third Battle And Fall that begins with:

Healing herbs from distant mountains Hanuman in safety brought,
Rama rose and gallant Lakshman, once again their foemen sought....

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb Xc dd ee ff gg cc cc hh XX hh cX aa hh ii cc hh gX cc ii jj hh ff aX cc aX cc ii aa Xh aa Xh bbXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101010101000101 101110101011101 1110101010011101 101010100010101 101010101010101 100111001010011 1000111001010001 101111101110001 1000101010101010 001110101010101 111010101010101 001110100010101 101010101010101 1010111010101001 110010100010101 001010101010101 111011111111101 100110101010111 1110010101110101 1011111001110011 111010100010101 100110101010101 111001101001101 111011101010101 001010001000101 101111101100101 111010101010101 101010101110101 111011101010101 101010001010101 101010001001001 101000101000101 101110101001110 10111101010101 111101001000101 100110101011101 101010101110001 100111101010101 111011101011111 101010101000101 1011101010010101 1010001010101010 101001101100101 111011101010111 111111100111001 1110010111110101 101011101110111 100010101010101 111111101010101 101010101010101 101010101010101 111000101010101 1110111010101001 10110101010101010 111010101000101 101011101010111 1110101011110001 101010100011101 101010101010101 1110101010111001 111110101010111 101010101011101 11101001010101101 1010010101000111 100010101010101 101010101010101 101110111010101 10101101101111101 101110101010110 1001011101010101 101110100011101 1010101010010111 101011001010111 101010001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • 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; and, his, in, to, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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