This is an analysis of the poem Reading An Anthology Of Chinese Poems Of The Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire The Length And Clarity Of Their Titles that begins with:

It seems these poets have nothing
up their ample sleeves...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcXcX Xd cXXXX XaXaX eXff aXb XdgcgbXefc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,5,5,4,3,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110110 11101 11101101110 10101011 1000111 111010010100 101111101 100010110101010 100010101001001 10010010100010 10101000010111 100100010110010 0010111 100101110 1111010110 1001101010 110100100 01101110010 110010111010 101101101011 101011001010 11010001110 101000110101010 011011101010 00101101000 0010101010110 11010011111100 00101110001 10100011 01010100101 10010011111 011010101 1101110110101 0110010 11110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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