This is an analysis of the poem The Sacrifice that begins with:
Years have passed; the lonely Rama in his joyless palace reigned,
And for righteous duty yearning, Aswa-medha rite ordained,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb Xc aa aa bb aa cc aaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010100010101 111010101010101 101010100010101 1011101000100101 111100101010101 111111101010101 100111111000101 10101110111111 100110100110101 10111100011001 101100101110101 101011101111101 110010100010111 111010101000111 100010101011111 111100101100101 101011101100101 101001101100101 1011100101010101 100110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (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, each, to, unto are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Sacrifice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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