This is an analysis of the poem Senlin: His Dark Origins that begins with:
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Senlin sits before us, and we see him. ...
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccdceefffcghhifjX aakk Clccl Xlkl eebb X cckccgX ijghaagmfeX ClllX ncnin eecc X HnKdnllkhkee HfeilXlfhchicibBK gncngghhcjfXXjbBn X Fnimcciigigegeg FniXgg eenX diilXlliifi X gikiggagflflgg ngnfnbjb nnefiXndccoooeolclnX cncd X XcXcXfc jilacX klldlgcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,21,4,5,4,4,1,7,11,5,5,4,1,12,17,17,1,15,6,4,11,1,14,8,20,4,1,7,6,9,10,5,4,1,8,8,12,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1010111111 11010111111 0110101 11101010101 10101010011 01111011011 0111110010010 100111011111 11001111101 11101001 110110101 10011111101 11100101010 101101 1011010101 11110100001 1101 01110110111 100100111 011110111010 100111101001 110100101 11010100111 110011101110 10111111110 01001011101 01110101011 0111111011 1010010111 1010010100101 11001010111010 010011100101 10111001110 1011010101 1111001111 101110010101 11001110101 1010010101 1 1010011101 1101011111 01110011010 01110111 11110010111 1010011101 01001011110 0111010001001 0100101 0111010101 111010111001 110010101 11000010101 010010101101 10010010111 00010010101 1001000101 1001011 01001011101 1100110111 11111011 11010010111 11110100010 001001011111 110010101010 1001111011 100111101010 1001010011 1111111111 11001110101 1110010111 1101010111 1 001010110010 10101101101 110011010010 0011111111110 11100101001 01111111010 101011101 011011111010 0101110001 1101110010010 111111111 11011110101 001010110010 01101010101 1001110111 010111001010 10110101001 010101001011 1001110101 11011110011 11110011101 1101101001011 10110101 1100110111 1010110011 01110011101 110011100101 101110101 110011010010 11011101001 1011010101 11110101001 1101100101 111011111 111010111 111111111110 1110100101110 110111001010 110101 1111101110 1001110101 101110110 10100101 11100111 101110101 010011001 1 10100110011 10011000101 10010100101 01100101101 10100100111 10110011101 001110100111 010100101 010100101 10110101 011101 11000111 10111111 10111101 0111011 10100110011 01010110101 101111011 1000111001 110100101 010100101 10001101 10011101 10010111 110100101 001001101010 01001011111 10011100111 1011111101 101101001010 100100100001 1001001001 11111100110 0101010101 11010110011 1001000101 1 001101111010 01110101101 11100101110 01001111101 11010011111 1011011101 010101001010 1001010001 1110100011 1101001101 1110011101 10111111101 10100100101 01011100001 101010110101 100110010 10010101 11010111010 1001111111 1111100101 100100101010 00101101 10001101 1010011100101 111101 10001 00010001 110101101110 11000101101 0110100 1110101 1101010011 1001110001 10111101001 1111011111 01110011100 01011011 00110011 011011001001 1101010111 010100101 111111011 1111010111 110001110101 10101011111 1101110100 1 10010111010 1000010101 1101011000 0111010101 1101010110 010011101011 11010011111 1011000111 10010101100 01010111 11011101010 10010101010 10111010 11010111010 01010100010 0101010101 01011101010 11010011111 11110100010 1011101 1111011110 11010011 01010110010 01010101010 01001101 011101101110 01010101 10100111011 010100101110 1011010111 11010111010 01011100100 110100111110 101010101110 1101110001 10111110110 11011101001 111100101010 01110011101 1010111001010 10011101 1 11110100110 11111101110 1111010101 1111001110100 011111 1011011101 01010100101 11011111 10100110010 111010101 100100110010 10101110101 11111111111 0101010101 100100001110 0001010111 1010111010010 11101 10010100111 110001001 10111011101 100101 01110101011 1101110111 10011101110 11010101010 11010100010 010100101010 1 01110101011 11011100101 111100001110 1101110111 01110101110 110011101 1110101010 010011 10010111 1101001 01110111 111 00111011111 1101101001 00111001010 011010111 101111001011 11110111 1010110111 110101 01100101110 0101010111 110101010010 01010100111 100111101110 10010111111 11010111010 11101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 45
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 303
- 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; and, senlin, we, with, to, of, on, his, in, tree, their, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or, the, do, bury, inside, and, is are repeated.
The author used the same words it, senlin, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, dead are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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