This is an analysis of the poem Lodging With The Old Man Of The Stream that begins with:
Men's hearts love gold and jade;
Men's mouths covet wine and flesh....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbXXaccbaddXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1110111 11011001 1100111101 10011110111 1001111111 10110101001 001111101 01111101 011111111 111111010101 11111110011 111001011011 01111111 101111111 1010011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 670
- Average number of words per stanza: 133
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words men's, in are repeated.
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