This is an analysis of the poem A Glimpse Of China that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXdcbdbXXXbcdccecedbdbcfdffbfbdXgdbebeXXgdbdebhbXXijijikXkdihihlblbababfXfXfbfbcecd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 87,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0010 11011 1001010 110101 001010010 1011111 10111110 1011101 00101110 1010011 1 001 11 00111011 0010101 000111010 00111101 1111010 0111011 10111110 0100101 11110010 0111101 111110010 1010101 0101010 1110111 101010010 010001 10100110 100101 11110110 101101 1010110 0100101 11001010 010100 0001010 110111 01001010 0010111 1 10 1011111111 1101111111 0001110110 1101001101 1011110101 1111011111 1101010111 1101010100 1 100100 11 1111101 11101 101001 11101 111010 1001000 1110110 111011 111101 101111 11101111 1101 11110101 010001 111011 11001 1110101 1010010 1110100 011010 1111101 00101 0101101 1010110 111010 111011 10100010 101100 11111010 0110110 10100010 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2417
- Average number of words per stanza: 437
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, they, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words up, from, and are repeated.
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