This is an analysis of the poem A Letter From Li Po that begins with:

Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind
announces autumn, and the equinox...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdebcbfeeghijaeccggghkjlagahcd X XdmmcbemjlabcknoigfXbmaifdbbpgp X epppijXiiaacigXmXXXqabcbdddee X peebggiimcoobbccXiiiiigbcmppaga i ajammlrmcicXricXbgbXaabmgXbbbXmmmmimglojaca mailaeel i ddkkgaaXggXsjjcjipX X magletngcedtmpim lbppemmjmlocojXeXaajcae X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,1,31,1,29,1,31,1,43,8,1,19,1,16,23,1,43,1,20,1,24,27,1,32,1,43,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110111 0101010101 1111001101 1101011101 1011011111 1101000101 1001010101 1101011111 1101110111 1011101111101 010111011 01010100111 110011100111 1101110101 1101010110 01001111011 010010010011 1101010101 10010101001 01110101001 1101110111 1111110101 101101011001 1011010101 100010101 010110010101 01001010001 1101110101 0101010100 1111110001 0111110101 11010100110 0101111111 1 111111011100 11011011001 11010100111 0101000101 111101110 1001011111 1100110101 1111110101 01011100101 1011101101 0101101011 11010000101 1101110101 11010111 1111010101 11010111010 11011101001 01001011101 1001111011 1101101111 10001011111 1111011111 11011101111 1101110101 1011110101 1001010101 0101010101 0101001101 1001111111 0101010101 100100110101 1 1111000001 0101001111 1001010001 110101001 11010010101 1011011101 1001110101 1001110101 1101110101 0101110101 1101011101 1001111101 1101100111 1001110101 0101010111 1101010111 1101011011 1111011111 1101110001 1000110001 1110010101 01001010101 111110111 01010100001 1111011001 1101011111 11100010001 0111111001 0101110111 1 10010111001 1001111101 10111111101 110011110010 1101001111 1101011101 111111 10111111 1110010111 11010110101 11011111001 0101110111 1101000111 101010101 1101110101 110110110001 111101110110 10010100101001 10001000111 01010101 1101011101 110101000111 1111111111 011010011101 0101000101010 010111111101 0101011101 10011111 01011101 1110110101 100100101001 1 0101110011 010101100100 1011010101 0100111111 0101011101 100111011 011110101 1001011101 1111111101 0101010111 0101011101 0101010101 1101010101 0001010101 0101111001 1110010101 1101010100 1001011101 1111001111 0101010101 101101011 10010000101 11110010001 10011010101 11110111001 10111001101 10111111 0100011101 10110010101 1101111001 010001000101 01110010111 1001011111 0101011101 1101110101 010110101001 01001111101 1001010111 0101010111 1100110111 11010111 0101110011 1111010101 01010001001111 0001010101 0101101111 1101011101 11111111 10001010101 01100110101 1001010101 1 0101010101 0101011111 0101101101 0001100101 1011110101 11111101 10010110101 1101010101 1101111111 11110010101 10110110101 11001111001 0100110101 1001000101 1111010101 0101111001 1001101101 1001001100001 11111111110 1 111111110111 1101111011 10010111 1010011 01 1101010010 01010111111 1101000101 1101110101 1101010111 1111111001 1001010110 111101 1111 11011100101 1101010101 01000011101 0101010101 0111010001 1001110111 0100010001 0100010001 1001010001 10110001100 0101010101 1011101101 1001010101 10010001110 11110101001 1100011101010 1111011101 1101010101 11010101010 1110100111 1011010101 1001110111 0101010101 0110010010101 1001010111 1 1001110111 11011100101 01001011001 010111101 11010101101 01011110101 011000101 0101011111 0101011111 1001011111 1101010111 1001010101 1001001111111 1101011101 1101010111 11001101101 100100011111 1001011111 1101010101 1101000101 1001101101 0101010101 101111101 1001010101 0101011001 1011110100101 101010010101 111101111111 1001011101 0111100111 1101000111 1111000101 0101000111 1101000101 0100110101 1101000101 1111011101 01110101 111 1111011101 0011011111 0110010011 0100011101 1 0101011111 0101010111 1001011101 0111000101 0101001101 01100101001 1101111101 0111110101 1001011011 1100010001 1101010001 1101011101 1101111111 0101011101 1111110101 1101110111 0101101101 1111110101 0101011101 1111010101 1 0101010011 1001111101 1001010101 1001010101 1111111111 0101010101 1101010111 11111111010 100101010 111 0101111101 0001110111 1101011001 0101110101 1001100101 1001110001 1001110101 1001010101 1001110101 1111010101 00011110001 0001000101 101110101 0001011111 1101110100 1001111001 011101001101 1001000101 01001010101 01111010101 0101110100 1011000101 100011101 0110010001 1001010101 1111011001 0111010101 11010011 11 00010100001 1111010101 01110111 011101 0111110111 01011001 01101 1101011101 1101010101 000101 01010110111 1101010101 1 0111010101 1101110111 01010101111 1111010001 1101001011 1100010001 100100101 0100010101 1001011111 0101011111 01001111101 0100011111 0011010101 0111110101 0100110111 10001011010 1001000101 1110011101 0100010001 0101010111 11110100001 0110010101001 0110010101 10011111010 1011010101 1001010101 1101011101 00110101 11010001 111101011101 001011 0001111101 1 11110110100 1001010111 000101010111 101010101 1011010110 1111011001 0101010101 1101010101 1111010111 1111100101 010010101010 1101011010110 0010101100110 0101000111 1100100010101 110010100101 10011101110 11010011111 1111010 11010101111 11111111010 110111001111 1001110111 1101000111 111 11010101010 10111001 11011101 11010110101 111101010110 11111111 111001011101 11110111011 10110011101 01001101001101 1001110111 0011010001 001011111 11101111 1101100111 0101010011 1110111101 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
  • Average number of words per stanza: 130
  • Amount of lines: 433
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, to, his, lost, love, not, for, and, it, of, language, we, dream, ', this, winds, here, why, time, becomes, text, from, words, poem, at, each, in, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, for, each, why, the, called, before, clouding, and, to, how are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines moon, ', winds are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases spring, rain connect the lines.

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