This is an analysis of the poem Mother's Blessings that begins with:

Tears of sorrow and of suffering flowed from Queen Kausalya's eye,
As she saw departing Sita for her blessings drawing nigh,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc bb aa bb dd ee XX bb bb ff gg bX aa cc hh gg bb cc bb hh bb cc hh dd eeXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1010101001011001 111010101010101 11101011110101 101110101010111 111010100110101 001010101010101 111011101001111 1100011101110011 1100101011101001 1100010100110101 1010010101010101 101010101010101 101011000110011 1011101010100101 1011101010111001 100011011110101 101110101011101 1010101000111010 1111101010101001 101010101011101 001010101110101 101010101001111 101010101000111 111010010110001 1010001010101101 1000010100011101 101110101010101 111001101010011 101110101011001 111010101010101 111010101011001 101010101010011 1011101010101001 101000111011101 111011101110101 111110100110111 101010101001001 1010100001010101 101011101110111 101010101010101 101111101011101 101110001011101 101110101001101 1010011000011001 111011001010101 1010101010100101 101010101001101 111010101010101 111111100010101 001111101100111 001110101111101 100110101111001 111111101110101 101111100110101 111010101110101 111000101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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; she, and, her, to, from, true, in, thy, his, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, this are repeated.

    The author used the same words who, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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