This is an analysis of the poem A Lament For My Son, Ts'Ui that begins with:
You were a pearl
In the palm of my hand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc cdbcccbe Xaae dXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 001011 110101 10011 01110110 1101 110101 111010101 011 0111111 01 1101010 1100101 1111111 1100101 11 11110011 1101 111101101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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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