This is an analysis of the poem Antara that begins with:
How many singers before me! Are there yet songs unsung?
Dost thou, my sad soul, remember where was her dwellingplace?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefXdXXX ghihXXdaifiadfibhXfXXhaihdjXcf XbgXgiXXfkXkXhgbjfabbkcc chkcdX khhcdkdelffghfhhfdcXihckXkld fffefhdlkaXf icbhXhdk XhcbXfhafcXfgfekcc kXkfdhcckffd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,30,24,6,28,12,8,18,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011111101 11111010110100 101011110100 11010111101101 10110010100101 1111101110101 10010011111100 101110111000 11011011101100 10011011101100 10010010101000 1011011010010 10111110111101 11011010100100 11110010101101 10111011100100 11110010101000 1111000111001 10111010111101 10100110110100 10111010101101 10110010100100 1011001101110 11010010100101 11010011100100 11011010110100 11010010110110 10011111100100 10010110100100 10111011101000 110111101101100 101100100110100 10010111110100 11010010100100 10010011100111 10010110110100 11000011110100 10111011110101 11111010101101 11111100100100 10111010111111 11010011100101 1101100110011 11011010100100 10011010110110 1001110100100 11110011100111 10011010111100 11010010101100 11010010101100 10010110110101 10011010101101 1011001011010 1101110110100 111111010010 11111010100100 10010010110101 11010010100100 10011110100111 10011110100100 1111010111100 11011010110100 10110010100100 100101101010100 10010011101101 10011010100101 11111100101101 11111110110110 11010111101100 10111100111101 10110100110100 11110010101100 11011110011100 1001110100110 10010010110100 111110100100101 10110110110100 111100100111100 11110111111100 11110110110100 1101001111101 110111011100100 11110111110101 1101001111101 1001001110100 11110111111100 11110010101100 11111101111100 11110011100100 10101010100101 11010010101101 111101111111000 10111110110100 11111010101100 111111000100101 10111011100100 11010010111100 10110100100100 11011111100101 100110101110101 10011010110100 100100100110101 11010010100101 10011011110100 11111110101111 11011010111100 10110110100101 1111001100101 10011111110100 10010010110100 11010010110100 10010011100100 11110100100100 10111111111101 11111011111100 11010111100100 11111010101000 11111000101100 11011011110100 10010011110100 110100010101000 10010010100100 111100111101101 111100111111110 10010010101000 10111010100110 111101111100100 101001111001100 110101101110100 11111110111101 10111110110100 10010111111110 10011111110110 100110110110100 11111011100100 11010010100100 01111110111101 011111010111101 10111010110100 10010010101101 11011010101101 10111011110100 1011110111100 10011010100100 10111010111101 1101101101111 11011011111101 11011110111100 11110100111101000 111111101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 992
- Average number of words per stanza: 183
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (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, of, first, one, with, by, her, i, my, they, me, thou, and, them, his, had, he, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, if are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, me, them are repeated).
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- summary of Antara;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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