This is an analysis of the poem Ravan's Second Battle And Vengeance that begins with:
Voice of woe and lamentation and the cry of woman's wail,
Issuing from the homes of Lanka did the monarch's ears awail,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bb cc aa bb aa cc cX dd ee ff dd gg bX aa gg ee bb cc ff fX hh dd dd bb ii cc dX bbXbb
- 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: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101110001010101 1000010100011110 1010101010010111 111010101110111 111110100110101 101010101011101 1001100010001001 101010101011111 101110101010101 1010101001000101 111111101010101 101010101110101 001111100110101 1011110101010101 101110101011101 1010101010011011 101010101010111 1111111001010101 001001101111111 100110001110101 111010101010101 1110111010100101 10101101010111 1011101010010101 1111101010010001 1001110010101001 10010101010101001 101010101011101 101111101010101 111110101010101 101010101010101 101010101011101 1000101010100111 101010101010111 101010101010101 111000101010101 100110000111001 1110100010010101 101110101010101 1001010101010101 1010101010101110 1010101010101010 10101010101101 110000101010101 10000101001010101 101110101010101 1010110010010101 111010101011001 101010101010101 100010101100101 101010101000101 1011101001010101 101011101110101 101000101010001 111111101100111 1101001000101011 10111010101011 101011001010101 101010101010101 101010101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; of, and, his, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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