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

Tears utmost gauze cloth dream not succeed
Night deep before palace press song sound...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111101 110110111 11111011 11111010110 010011011101 010101010101 0101101111101 101001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; in is repeated.

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