This is an analysis of the poem Dreaming Of Li Po that begins with:

After the separation of death one can eventually swallow back
one's grief, but...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcdedfgfhiXeXbXXg iagXdgXdXXheehbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010011101000101 111 010100010011010000100 0 1001111010011111 11 110011111001001 111 1001010010101001 010101 11110101011001 0100 10110101001001 1011 10101101001011000 100 1110011011101001111 0 10010111110101011 111010111110100 11 0111110110100101 1 010001111111011 111 11111101000010010 111 1000101111110010100 10 10111111110111010 10110 01000101010101100110 101001110101010101 0101000100001011011110 010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 751
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • 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; my, and, you are repeated.

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