This is an analysis of the poem Mohini Chatterjee that begins with:

I ASKED if I should pray.
But the Brahmin said,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeXefgfgdbdbhbhXaeaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 10101 11101 100101 11001 11001 101101 1101 11110 110111 0100111 111111 011001 100010 111111 1101010 110111 11101 10111 110101 100101 01101 10111 11100 110101 11011101 111101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 674
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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