This is an analysis of the poem Senlin: His Cloudy Destiny that begins with:
1
Senlin sat before us and we heard him. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbcccdcccdX cedXfbdbgb hhbb X iffjfkicccaakagXclal kkkljlceaegfgfXkmX X jeXemldlicgcXhhll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,13,10,4,1,20,18,1,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1010111111 11010111111 1110101 011010010101 101001010011 11100110101001 01011111 010101001001 11111101 0101101110 0101010111 1111011011 110110111 01001011101 1010101 1100100111011 1111000 1110101110 010101100101 010010101111 0101011101 10111001110 10010110111 1111001111 10111010101 100101 1101010101 1 10010111010 10011111110 0111110 10111101010 10010101010 11110101011 10010101010 100111 11011101110 10101110101 111101111011 110101 10110101111 110111 10000111011110 1111111 10010111010 01011111001 11111111011 100111101 110111111111 110101111111 11010111011 1011010101 100010101011 01010010101 10111101010 10010001 111101010110 11111101 111110010 10111111 11110111010 0111 1101111100101 01110111011 10011101110 111100100011 1 1010110011 111101 0111110010010 10011101101 11100100010 1011010101 11100101011 1101100101 01011111111 011111 10111001110 1001010011 1111011111 10111110001 1111010111 1001111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, senlin, and, you, he, it, in, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, what, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, you are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase laughter connects the lines.
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