This is an analysis of the poem Ravan's Third Battle And Fall that begins with:

Gods and mortals watched the contest and the heroes of the war,
Ravan speeding on his chariot, Rama on the heavenly car,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa aa bb cc dd ee ff aX cc gg hh cc bb hh cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010101010001 10101010010101001 10101010001100101 101010101110101 1011101010100101 101010101010101 111010101010111 101011101010101 1110010101010101 101110101010101 1111111010010101 111010101011101 1110010101010111 101010101010111 1010010100110001 1010101010001010 1010110011001010 1110101010101010 101110101000101 101010101010101 101011100010101 101010101111101 10010010101011101 100111101010101 101010101010111 111010101010101 101110101000101 101011101010101 101000111110101 1000111011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • 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; and, on, of, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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