This is an analysis of the poem A Suggestion To My Friend, Liu. that begins with:
There's a gleam of green in an old bottle,
There's a stir of red in the quiet stove, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101110 1010100101 10100100111 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, there's, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there's is repeated.
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- Analysis of A Foresaken Garden
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- Analysis of A Song Of The Palace.
