This is an analysis of the poem Ravan's Decision that begins with:
Anger swelled in Ravan's bosom as he cast his blood-red eye
On Bibhishan calm and fearless, and he spake in accents high:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff gg hh ff bb dd ii dd fX
- 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: 101010101110111 110011101110101 101010101011101 101011101110101 101010101110101 111011101110111 1110101011100101 111010101101111 11101001010011111 111010101110101 101000101110111 1110110101110011 111001101011111 1111100111000101 111001101010101 1110101001010011 1111110101101101 110010101110111 111010101100101 101011101111101 1011101011111001 101011111110111 11101010101001011 101011101010101 100111001010101 1111101001111101 111000101011111 101010101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in, how, they, my, us, but, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, not, long are repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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