This is an analysis of the poem The Garden Shukkei-En that begins with:
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river
as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab X cdX X ea Xb Xc Xa b XX X ebbe f fg X XX Xb X eg X ffbfXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,1,2,2,2,2,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,2,2,1,2,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111010 1010101101010 1111001011 0001011 010010 10111011 0110110111000 01011011110 0101101010110 10101101 111111111 1101101101010 1010011100 101001001001011 100100011000010 111001010011010 11011101 11111110110111 111101010101000 110011010101 1110101011110 111010101 1001001011001 10100101 1101111010010 011111110110001 11011101001 0100110110110000110 00110111001101 0101010100011101 110001010101 01010100100110 1110110011001 00110010111001 0111001011111000101 1111101111100 111001010100101 11101011010010 1001001011001 00010010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; where, there, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Garden Shukkei-En;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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