This is an analysis of the poem The Camellia Tree of Matsue that begins with:

At Matsue,
There was a Camellia Tree of great beauty... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdebXfdXbcfeXaffgbfbegXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11010010110 110011101 1110010110 11 1011001 010011101 1011 110111010 1001010 1010101 010001 10010001010 100010 1101 001001110 101010 10101101010 01010110 0110 1010001 1010011 110100101 1101001 110101011 1101111 0110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 844
  • Average number of words per stanza: 157
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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