This is an analysis of the poem Eating Bamboo Shoots that begins with:
My new province is a land of bamboo-groves:
Their shoots in spring fill the valleys and hills....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXbXXaXbXbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010011 11001101011 01010111000 110101101010 111001011110 1110110110 1101001101 1101010101 010101011101 01110111 11001110100 101111111 1011110111 11111010111 11111101111 111001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 711
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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