This is an analysis of the poem Going Alone To Spend A Night At The Hsien-Yu Temple that begins with:
The crane from the shore standing at the top of the steps;
The moon on the pool seen at the open door;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100110101001 01101110101 111111101 111111101 11111010111011 01010011101 1111100101001 1010011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 371
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
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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- Analysis of The Dragon Of The Black Pool
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