This is an analysis of the poem Sita Lost that begins with:
Morning dawned; and with Valmiki, Sita to the gathering came,
Banished wife and weeping mother, sorrow-stricken, suffering dame,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb bb cc aa aa dd bX aa ee ff gg bb dd hh Xb XX ii bX fX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010010001001 1011101010101001 101111001011101 101010100010101 101110101110101 1001011111011111 100010101010101 1010100100010101 100010101100101 100110101011101 100011011111101 1001111001001111 001110101110101 001110100110101 111010101010101 1110101000111010 111010100110101 1010011101110101 101010101110101 1000101010010101 101011001110001 1010111011100101 1011101010001001 101010101010101 101110100110101 100011101010101 101010101011101 111010101110110 101011101110101 101011101010101 00101010111001000 1011110101010111 001101101110101 10110111000100010 101111101010101 1011100101010101 101000101010101 1010101011111000 111010101110011 1010101010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (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, my, to, of, her, saw, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, saw are repeated.
The author used the same words pardon, if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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