This is an analysis of the poem The Council Convened that begins with:
Thus the young and brave Satrughna, Bharat ever true and bold,
Went to warlike western regions where Kaikeyas lived of old,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc aa dd dd dd ee aa aa aa ff cc ff gg hh ii jj dd ff bX dd cc jj bb ff jj ii dd hh ccXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101111001010111 101110101100101 101010101010111 1010101000100101 100010101000101 11001101111111 111001101011101 101011001001001 101110100010111 001010101011101 101010101010101 11000011010101001 101011101010101 10100101010100101 101011101010101 1010111011101001 0010101010100101 001010101011101 10001111000111 101010101010111 001011101011001 001100101011101 10001110101101010 1010101011101010 101110101010101 101011101111101 001000101011101 001010101010101 111011100010001 101010101110101 111111101010001 101010101010100 100011101110001 101000101000111 101110100010101 101110101110101 101010100110101 101110101110111 111110101011001 001001111111101 1111101000010101 111010101011111 10010101010001001 101010101010101 111101101011111 101011101010101 111010101010101 1011100101010101 101010101000101 101110101010111 101010101010111 101010101110101 101111000010111 1010101010100111 100100101100111 101111001010101 011110101010101 100011000010101 1010101000010101 101110101110111 111111101010111 111110101010101 11111101000111 1010111011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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, of, his, in, to, by, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word taught at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Council Convened;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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