This is an analysis of the poem Kumbha-Karna's Determination that begins with:
Ravan's brother Kumbha-karna, from his wonted slumber woke,
Mightiest he of all the Rakshas, thus in solemn accents spoke:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc XX dd cc cc ee ff gg hh dX ee dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 101010100010101 1001010101010101 101011001110101 1011111010101001 110010101011101 100010101010101 1010101010111010 10111010100001010 101011100110101 111111101110101 1010101010010111 111010101011101 101110101000101 101110101010101 101010100010101 111011101110101 101010110111011 101011101010111 110010101100101 1011101010001001 101011101111101 1110101011111001 101010101110101 111100101010111 101110101110111 100011111110101 110110101110101 1110101010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; of, and, his, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vain is repeated.
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