This is an analysis of the poem Ballad Of The Old Cypress that begins with:
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches
are like green bronze; its roots like rocks; around its great girth...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXXdfghfXihdfgbXfhfhg e edah fdcaihe dafa hjXe adkX dedh Xkj Xae hfh iai abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,1,4,7,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01001001101101110010 1111011101011010 101010101000101101 10110101011110111 1110110101000100111 011010010100010011001 1110101010110100 101010 1010011101101111101 1001001101110110111 10100100101011101001 1001010100110110111 1010101101011100 101001111010010110 00010011100111101 0100011001110101110 101001000100100111 01111001011010111 110000111010001100010 1001001001011010101010 01000110010110101111 10001000101011101011 11111001000101100101 1110111110010010101 11001011 010010 010111 11110 010111 11110 010111 10011 110111 10010 101101 11010 11010111010 010001 01010 110111 01010 101111 10110 0101011 1110 110101 01010 011101 10100 111101 01010 110101 10010 101001 00110 11010100010 1001001 10011111101 11010 1111000110100 111101 11010 11010101110 101101 11010 101001 11110 101011 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 70
- 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; its, of, to, it are repeated.
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- summary of Ballad Of The Old Cypress;
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