This is an analysis of the poem Reading Laozi that begins with:
Those who speak do not know, those who know are silent,
I heard this saying from the old gentleman....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111110 11010001100 001100111101 101110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; who is repeated.
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