This is an analysis of the poem Ordeal By Fire that begins with:
For she dwelt in Ravan's dwelling-rumour clouds a woman's fame-
Righteous Rama's brow was clouded, saintly Sita, spake in shame:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd bb dd aa ee XX dd dd cc aA aA aX ff XX ff ddXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101010101 101011101010101 1001111100110111 101010100010001 10010011011101001 001010101010101 1000110101010011 111010011010101 111010101010111 101010101010101 101011101011111 1001111010010101 101010101010101 1001111011101001 1011010010100101 101011100011101 101011101010101 1001010101011101 111010101010101 1011001101011101 101010101010101 10001010100101101 110010101100101 101110011010101 1011111011111011 1001111010100111 001110101010101 1001111010100111 001110101110111 10011110101001110 1000111010101010 1010101010101010 111010101010101 111111101110111 1010101010111010 10100011000101010 101011001111101 101010101010101 101110100010101 101010100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; your, and, his, my, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
The author used the same words wherefore, when, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fame at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ordeal By Fire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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