This is an analysis of O Woe by Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

O woe! The sky is thin, listless.
O woe! The stars are withered, extinguished.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXcXaXaXcXXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010110 1101110010 1101111 11010010011 110111101 110110111111 1111100111 11010011100 11010111 11110101 1111110101 111010111 11010101110 111100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

o, woe

Anaphora

o