This is an analysis of the poem Ravan's Coming that begins with:
Ravan watched the happy moment burning with a vengeful spite,
Came to sad and sorrowing Sita in the guise of anchorite,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bb cc dd ee ff Xa gg Xd cc gg bb gg aa Xf hh cc bb hh ee ff gg hh ii cc dd gg dd jjXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010101000101 1011100100010100 101110101010111 101000101010101 111010101111111 101010101000101 111011101010101 101011001011101 101010101010101 100010101010101 100010101010101 101101001010001001 111010101010100 101010101010001 111010101111001 101010101010101 1010101010101000 101110100111101 101011101111101 10011101010010101 1010101010101001 101010101010111 1010101100101001 001110101010101 1010101101100101 101110101010101 1000100100011101 101010100010101 100110101010101 101010101010100 111111100101010101 101110101101101 111010101010101 011010101010101 111010101110101 101010101110101 101111101011111 111110101010001 1110101010101101 1110101010101001 101100101110111 101110101110101 1001010101110111 101010101010111 101110100110101 111110101010101 1011101010101010 1011101010101010 100010101010001 1010101100110101 101110101111101 101011100011101 11100100101101101 1010100101010001 1010001010111001 101010101010101 101010101010101 101110101010101 1001010101110101 111110101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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; and, his, her, with, of, or, thy, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, choose are repeated.
The author used the same words and, mute, ravan, lighting at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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