Chiang Chin Chiu by Li Po: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Chiang Chin Chiu that begins with:

See the waters of the Yellow River leap down from Heaven, Roll away to the deep sea and never turn again! See at the mirror
in the High Hall Aged...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXccddXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000101011010101001111010111010 0011111001100101010010101101 0111111000111101011010101011101 11101010101000111101110111010 1101100111011011101101110111 11011011101101111111111011101 01111001010011100111111110011001 110101101011010010011010101001 111110100011111010011111001011 10111010110111010111101010011 101011100101110101000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1376
  • Average number of words per stanza: 271
  • Amount of lines: 11
  • Average number of symbols per line: 124 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 25

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, in, and, wine are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wine is repeated).

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  • summary of Chiang Chin Chiu;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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