This is an analysis of Seasonal Cycle - Chapter 01 - Summer by Kalidasa.
"Oh, dear, this utterly sweltering season of the highly rampant sun is drawing nigh, and it will always be good enough to go on taking daytime baths, as the lakes and rivers will still be with plenteous waters, and at the end of the day, nightfall will be pleasant with fascinating moon, and in such nights Love-god can somehow be almost mollified...[who tortured us in the previous vernal season... but now without His sweltering us, we can happily enjoy the nights devouring cool soft drinks and dancing and merrymaking in outfields...]
"Oh, beloved one, somewhere the moon shoved the blackish columns of night aside, somewhere else the palace-chambers with water [showering, sprinkling and splashing] machines are highly exciting, and else where the matrices of gems, [like coolant pearls and moon-stone, etc.,] are there, and even the pure sandalwood is liquefied [besides other coolant scents,] thus this season gets an adoration from all the people...…
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- Stanzas: 28
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, with, their, of, be, that, coolant, in, nights, drinks, on, while, season, they, moon, bosoms, those, to, like, blazing, face, now, by, thus, as, though, for, danger, serpents, plumage, his, water, repeatedly, up, it, frog, highly, its, hood, from, caves, snouts, wildfire, gusts, trees, then
Anaphora
oh, the, that