This is an analysis of the poem Alone, Looking For Blossoms Along The River that begins with:
The sorrow of riverside blossoms inexplicable,
And nowhere to complain -- I've gone half crazy....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd dXef ffgX heaf XhXi hcchXdgib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001011010100 11100111110 1111101011101 1111011101101 0110010100101 11101000011001 10110001010101 01010111111 01101111000110 111011101001 01101001011111 0010110101110 10101011010 101110110100101 0101011101100 101001011110 10010011011 0100110011010 0010110100100 11101111001 1101110101 10101010101 1101101001010 110011011111 1111101101001 111101111010 111010101011 110101101000100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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