This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Guitar. that begins with:

In the tenth year of Yuanhe I was banished and demoted to be assistant official in Jiujiang. In the summer of the next year I was seeing a friend...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdebfbgchidijahdXeacafdhhahfgdhbXeeddaikafaiahlafglhhjdbgXbialkhbkXejXiliifiajefXdbjadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,88,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001101111010100001001001000100011111001110110011001001001100100010001010111010110000101110001001010001010100011010111111010111101001101000100111111111011010101011100111011011011100 1110011111101010 110111110100010 10111001111001 11111110110111110 11111111110100110 1010101100001011 111010100101010 1010111110101 110101001110101 011100100110 1111100100011 10111100100110 11111010101110011 1101010101001 1101011101001 11111110100111 110101011011 1010101010011 11011010101010 101101001110101 110110011010 10100111101101 0111011 011101010 10101101010 101001111000101 11110110100110 11011001010101 101000110101110 1101111011001 00010101010001 1101010111101 01010101001010 11110101101111 10111011110011 111111110101 11100011110001 111010101100101 1111010110101 1111010110100 11111101110100 1000101100101 1110001101011 001010100110010 010101010010 0100100101010 11010101100010 11001101010111 11010111011010 1101001010101 10101011101 10110111101010 11010110111011 11011101101010 01010100110101 111001101110010 110101101110 110101010011 111010110110101 1100101110110 101001011110010 101000011010001 0101011110110 110101011101 1110100011 1111011101010 1101010100100 11101111010 11010101111110 1011011011 110101011111 010111001010101 110001110110 0101010010001 11000110111101 11101011110101 0111010110101 111111011111 101111110101 11101100101010 111111111101 11010110100100 111111111010 110100111101010 110101000111101 010110010110 1100111001 01001011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2841
  • Average number of words per stanza: 514
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, in, and, had, to, her, my, of, boat, we, she, little, them, been are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, and, her are repeated.

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