This is an analysis of the poem Valmiki And His Pupils that begins with:
Foremost midst the gathered Sages to the holy yajna came
Deathless Bard of Lay Immortal-Saint Valmiki rich in fame,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc aa bb dd ee ee dd ff dd gg hh bb dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 111010100010101 101010101100101 101010101011001 100011000010101 1110001010001001 001011000100101 111010101010101 101110100010111 111010101110101 101010000011001 1000101000100111 001011110011101 101010101100101 100010101100101 101011000010101 101010101010101 101011100011111 101000100110001 101000101010111 101010101000101 111011101010101 101010101010101 100011101010111 101001101001111 0010101011100101 1100011011101101 111010101110101 001000101001101 110010111010111 101000011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (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; of, and, to, sing, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sing is repeated.
The author used the same word sing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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