This is an analysis of the poem Senlin: His Futile Preoccupations that begins with:

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I am a house, says Senlin, locked and darkened, ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabacded fghgaiji bkdklmnm ojkjhdgd X Fphpbjkj QHjH OgkGgbgbHJbj Faraogbg Qhjh bifidjoj hhnh Ogfg bgkgdpnp qHjH X kbrbjj jdjd iddd klal hrjr hbab X dajahhbh dagajfhf nhhh djajadad badaoodoggg ddlgl cfgeg jjsjbptp qpbp X qaaadrdr ksh ndbdadnd nkhkhbhb nl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,8,1,8,4,12,8,4,8,4,4,8,4,1,6,4,4,4,4,4,1,8,8,4,8,11,5,5,8,4,1,8,3,8,8,8,8,8,1,7,5,12,12,7,1,4,4,11,17,6,1,7,7,17,12,11,16,12,1,16,8,6,1,8,4,4,4,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 11011101110 1001011111 10110111111 111100100011 111111111011 1101110001 11100111010 10011100001 110100011010 11001111101 11010101010 1001100101 11010101010 10101011111 00111110011 11011011111 11010111010 0111110111 100100111110 01000010101 111110101010 11001011001 111111011010 10011011111 11011111110 1001010111 110101100011 11011011101 11001101110 1011011111 010111101111 1101010101 1 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 1 110111100101 100101 11110110110 110001 101010101101 100010010101 111101101 111101 110000101 0111101 110100100101 1001110111 1100100101010 1011010100101 110101000010 0101110101 101001100101 0110011101 1011101101 110101 110110001 1111101 010010111 110111 101010101 1100001 1 1100110011010 001110111 1101111011 0010010111 0111001010 110101 0010110111 1100101 1001110011010 110100111 01111010001 0101001 001111110111 1101010111 11110010001 11010101001 100110101 0010011 10111111 011101 1001110011010 11011000101 1001011111 1111111101 1001100111 1101001 10010101 1111011 010101110010 1111001001 1100101101110 011111001 000001111010 01110101110 10010100111 11110111010 0100010101 01010010101 10010111111 10110110101 11010111 0101101001 11110100111 1111 1010011 100100101010 11010011111 110100111010 110111101 100111010011 0011110111 100101101001 0100100001 110010111010 100101011 1001100111 11010101 111101010 110101 111100101 110111 1 0011101101010 11001011011 1010101001010 110111100101 11010001010 011100101110 01010101010 1110010 100101111 101101011 111100101 0101001010010 011111011 10011001110 11011001 01111111010 0111110101 011100101010 11010011101 11011101010 1011 0100101001110 101110111 110100110111 101111101 1010011101010 1010001 110111110010 0111011 01110101010 00110111001 101111010100 011011101101 01011100101 11111111 001011111001 111011100101 00111101111010 010011100001 11111100111 011100111 011100111010 11111101 110111001010 11111011111 0101111001011 1111101 0011111101 10110101 1111001001110 101011001001 1 101001101 10010111001 1101001 10111001 1100101 1001101101 100010111 101001101 1101000001 10011101 111001010 10110011111 10100110011 100111 1010101001 1010 0111110 11011001001 01001100 111111110111 11010100101 01111101110010 11101001 11100101 00100110111011 0010101111001 0100100101 1101001110010 1011111011 10101111001 11010 10111011001 11010 1011111010110 1001111001 11010 1100110011 101001 10010111010010 1101001 101001001 0010001 100010111 1 001110101010 01011101 11110101010 0101011111 00101111101 01011110111 0011111 010111001 11001011001 0111011 010011001101 0100110100111 0100101 011111 00111001 011100001 101011000 00111001 010111 11001011 10101101 101101 1011011001 100101 011100101010 011100101 011001001011 0101001 01110001 10110011 011101 010110101 1100001011 11011101 1001001 1011111 001110111010 01011100101 0111001010010 0100111001011 10010100001 01001001001001 1 01110101 010101011 0010110101 11001001010010 0101100111 00110011 110100101 110101011110 1001010011 010010011101 00001010001 11111101 100100101001 0010100001 101110101101 01011011010010 0011100111 101011 0110011111101 010011111 00110011 110100101 010100011 010010000 1011101 01010111 11010101 1000101010 1110011 1011101001 10101 110101011110 0101001011010 0010101 1001101001001 111011111 11101001 0010101 10110100101 11011101 11110101 100100101 10110100 101001010 111100101 011111001 010100111 111011111 010010001 1110100111 11101 010011111 0100100011 1110111 10010101 10011111 10100100111 10101 10100111 110100101 01110111 111101 00111111 111001 010010111 10001 00010001 110011101 1010101011 1101 11111111 010111001 11111111 0110001 110101001 010100111 1010101001 0010101 110010001 01110101 11010111 00101001 1 001010110010 010011100101 10111111010 1101011101 01011100101 1111 010110101010010 111110101 0100101110010 10010110111 110101111110 0111001110 111011110111 110100110111 11010011101 110110010101 11010111110 0011 1101011101 010 111111101 11001111111 110100111 11011111 0010101 1010101 111101010 011111 0111010101 10111010011 1 0011010010 1011111 1101001111 110111 0011010010 1101101 011100111 0101001 1110100101 1111001 1010011101 111011 1100111 101111 011101111 1110101 0011100101 100111 00111111011 111111 00110111 101101001 01001001001 0010111 0011101001 1100001 0010100011 00111001 1110011101 10111101 1010011111 0110101 1011111110 10101111 10011111 001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 72
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 477
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, her, me, you, in, i, from, stones, these, my, to, she, sorrow, death, for, what, drums, it, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, i, and, the, these, her, a, death, what, it, we are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, it, does, do, death, yet 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 me, mirth are repeated).

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