This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Unending Sorrow. that begins with:

China's Emperor, craving beauty that might shake an empire,
Was on the throne for many years, searching, never finding, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaddebfcaddeceghggbcecaiejXklhhhbhXemdjedcnhoejhnidjjfpeXnbeeidXhmXchapecdbabpbpidpoohphXgmchjchjpXbcjlhcXjjfgnjkdcXda
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 120,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010101111100 11011100101010 10101001110101 1011010011100 101010110110001 111111010010011 011101111010101 101011001100100010 011001110001001 11110101010001 1010010011100 110100100110101 0100110001110001111 010101101110010 11001011010111 1010001110101010 11010110011100 0100001010001 1010100011100110 10100110010000110 1011110010100101110 1110010010011110101 0101010101010 10111010110101 110100101001010100 1001011110101 1111010011 1111010101001 0111110110110 0100111011001 111100101011 11010011110101 010010011101001 01001011001011 00100110011101110 1101000100010101 0100101110011 110110111101111 10010100111101 1011111101010011 0100111011101001 11011101010111 1100010111011 10100101011111011 1010100111 11101110001011 11100111111010111 1100101001110101 1110100100101010 11110010110101 11101101111010111 01001001111101 001010101101110 1100110110111 1011111110111 1110111010100100 01010010101101 0111000101011 1010110110111011 11111110101110 1111110001001 1010100110101 0101101000100110 101010011111101 0110100111 1010110000010100 1001110111100011 1110011001111101 111110101010 101001110011011 101001001101110101 1010011011100110 0010011111101 111010101010001 110101011101010 10010101010101 110011101001010 111001010101110 110010111010110 1010100110101 01110110101001 11101010101111 11110101010111 01000100110001 00101110001101 1010001010011 1010101110101 001011100100011 11100111011110101 1101110010101001 101011011000100010 11010100110100 110101011011 1100101110101 010111111010011 101011111101010 10111011100010 1111011110101 10111010111 01010011010001 111101011111101 111110100101110 11001101010011 111110110101010 1111011110101 110101001010111 111100100101110 110101110111110 11110010111001 100100101001001 101011000111101101 11111110101110 1111101000100101 011101100111 100101001010010011 111101000010111 111010101100101 1010101011100110 101100111111 10010101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7472
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1335
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of, his, she, he, had, on are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines box is repeated).

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