This is an analysis of the poem Surpa-Nakha In Love that begins with:
As the Moon with starry Chitra dwells in azure skies above,
In his lonesome leafy cottage Rama dwelt in Sita's love,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc cc cc dd ee ff dd dd bX cc gg gg hh XX ii cc bb cc jj bb Xa
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010101010101 001010101010101 101011101011101 1011101010101001 101010101000101 111011101010101 101010101000101 111010101011101 11101010101101 101010100010101 111010100010101 110011101011101 111010101010101 101010101010101 1110111010101001 111010101011101 111110101010101 11011100110101 101010100110101 10101010101101 101011101010111 1000010100010101 001011101010111 101000110010101 101001101010101 101011101011111 101011101011101 111100101010101 100110101001100 100010100011101 111100101101111 1111101010100111 101110101110111 1110101010100101 111010101010101 101011101100111 101010100101101 111010101110101 1110011001110011 111111101110101 101010101010101 001010111011101 101010101010101 111110101110101 101010100010111 1110101110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; in, and, lotus, her, with, i are repeated.
The author used the same words and, looked, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase slay connects the lines.
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