This is an analysis of the poem Anashuya And Vijaya that begins with:

A little Indian temple in the Golden Age. Around it a garden;
around that the forest. Anashuya, the young priestess, kneelinq... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcaXXdecfghhiXbJfXXgfkblmbldbggXdfkeggkdgfgimegmmdgmffgnnnggiXmaggggfbkegeegiemnigXdcgfdhjfnnnmlngljjfJfgjXddXei
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 114,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101001000101010010 0110101000011010 01010 10001111011100 1 11100011011 11000010011 11011101001 01001011010 1101111111 010101101111 1111010101 0100010101 01001110111 10010011001010111 1000 1000101 1100010101 1101 1001011100 10001101010101 10100100110 010111 1001101 100011010010 011111110 111101111111 010 01111101110 11110111111100 10 01010011110101 11110101000101 111010010 1001111101 0111011011 10010101011 100010110101010 101100101010 10011011001 10001101011001 1001110101 1111111010 01010100101 0101110101 11111101101 1101111101 100101010110 11000101001 1111111111 1111110111 0111111111 100111001111 1101000101011 1 010100101101111 110011 111111111011 11 01110111101101 10001101000101 1001101111011 10010010111 0100110101 11110001001 100101010010 1100111001 1101010101 0101000101 1101111101 1101001101 1001 1000100101 1111010 10001 11110101010 10011010111110 0101000101 1111010101 0011001110 1101000111 10001001010101 10011 100011010001 1111110100 1011010101 1101101111 1111010011 1101010111 01011010001 01001111101 0101011101 1101000101 1 100101000111 1000111010111 1011110111111 10 11000101 1101111101010 10 11110100111101 01010111010101 1110011111 1100010101 1101 1001 110101 0101100101 0101011011 0011110101 01100111100 11110101010 1001011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4582
  • Average number of words per stanza: 833
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, you, your, and, of, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words anashuya, he, sing, and, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines swear is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase anashuya connects the lines.

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