This is an analysis of Stray Birds 81 - 90 by Rabindranath Tagore.
81
WHAT is this unseen flame of darkness…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ab X bb X cbd X dXde X fXf X XX X gX X Xeg X Xe X aXce
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,1,2,1,3,1,4,1,3,1,2,1,2,1,3,1,2,1,4,
- Metre: 1 100011010 11101 1 11010011010 111101 1 1110101101 111 10110 1 01010011 01010110 010001 1101 1 0100010010 111001 1010 1 11110111 1110011110 1 0100101101001 111001 1 1101101100101 11010110101 11010001 1 010010001 1001010001 1 010 01011101 001 01011101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 37
Anaphora
he, in
Epiphora
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