This is an analysis of the poem The Egret Floating that begins with:
I was suddenly back in bristles
when I saw the egret floating,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab cdb bca dXe dfe XXb eXXXbcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001010 11100010 01111 111101 10111 1111010 0011011 011101 110 101101 0101001 101110001 101011 1110010 1001101 1110000010101 011110100 101101 100101111 010101101 01101 010011 111001110010 11111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, i are repeated.
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