This is an analysis of the poem To My Brothers & Sisters Adrift In Troubled Times This Poem Of The Moon. that begins with:

Since the disorders in Henan and the famine in Guannei, my brothers and sisters have been scattered. Looking at the moon, I express my thoughts in...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001001010100101101101010101011011100101110110101101101011010110110111010110110110 110011010110 110110110110 111101101 11111011001 11011110110010 11101110101010 1110111111 11011011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 79 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 15
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and, at, brother, in, brothers, sisters, i are repeated.

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

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