This is an analysis of The Coromandel Fishers by Sarojini Naidu.

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110101001100101 0110100100110111111 111101100111101001 010010100111101001 1100111100100100111 0101100101100111111 111110100110100111 111011010100111 100100100110100101 11101101101001001011 1101100100110100111 110100100110111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

of, our, sea, and