This is an analysis of the poem Morning Song Of Senlin that begins with:

It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning
When the light drips through the shutters like the dew, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcbdefeGCeCHifiididcedeAjXjhidiGcecdkakleheccmcHiaidifilbmbgCeC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010110010 10111010101 10111011 1101110101 10010101011 1001011101 111110101010 101011111 111110 11100101 01010010001 010111 0010111010 111111 1111001111 110111 1110101111 111111 011110101 1100101 1110100101 1111001 10111001010 101111 001010110010 111100100101 011111101010 1001110101 1010101001110 010111110111 011101001010 10101110101 111110 0111101 1110010001 010111 0010101001010 101100101001 011011110010 11011011111 01010111110 01110000101 001011101110 1011111 1110101111 101111 110100111 110101 0010111010 1011111 0111001110 1110111 0010101101010 1011010111111 11010100110 101010110101 1111010101010 10101011101 10011111011 1100111 1111010 11100101 01010010001 010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2617
  • Average number of words per stanza: 496
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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