The Earl Of Shaou's Work by Confucius: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Earl Of Shaou's Work that begins with:

As the young millet, by the genial rain
Enriched, shoots up luxuriant and tall,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dcdc eXec fafa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 0111010011 1111010111 01011101011 1111011101 1111011101 11111101010 1111000111 11110101001 1101010101 1111011111 1101000111 1101111101 11110101100 0101010101 11001010101 1011111111 11001110101 0101010101 10111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, our, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word said at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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