This is an analysis of the poem Prahasta's Speech that begins with:
Dark and high as summer tempest mighty-armed Prahasta rose,
Spake in fierce and fierce accents hurling challenge on his foes:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc cc dd dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110101011001 10111101010101 1001011101011101 1001010101010101 100010101010101 101010101010101 111010100011001 101010101110101 101110101010101 101010101011001 101110101000011 1010101000010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; his, in are repeated.
The author used the same word not at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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