This is an analysis of the poem Indrjit's Sacrifice And Second Battle that begins with:
Still around beleaguered Lanka girdled Rama's living chain,
Raksha chieftain after chieftain strove to break the line in vain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa aa bb bb cc aa cd cc dc cc bb ee bb bb cc aa bb ff aa gg XX hh
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010101010101 101010101010101 101011001110101 100111001001101 100010101110101 101110101010101 111010101000101 111011001011101 101110101110011 101111111110111 1111101010111001 101110101011101 1010110010111010 1011111010101010 101010100010101 100010101111101 1011101010101010 1010101000101110 0010010101000101 101010101010111 111010101111101 1010111010100101 1011111110101001 1010101101000101 100011101111101 1010101000010111 100011001111101 10011010101001001 101010101011101 100110100010101 101010101010111 10111010010010101 111011100011101 100010101110101 101111101011101 100010101011101 101110101011101 0011100101110101 101011001000101 100110101010101 010010101111101 111010101110101 100111100010111 100010101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; in, and, of, with, his, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word witness is repeated.
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