This is an analysis of the poem Fishing In The Wei River that begins with:

In waters still as a burnished mirror's face,
In the depths of Wei, carp and grayling swim....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXdbadcXXbdXXad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011010101 0010111101 10110101101 1111101011 0101111101 101011101 11101101101 111100010100 10101101 101101101 01001101001 110001111 111110111001 111100111 1001010101 111010010101 111000110101 11011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 751
  • Average number of words per stanza: 153
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; my, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

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