This is an analysis of the poem From Autumn Thoughts, Poem 1 that begins with:

Jade frost bites the maple trees
and Wu Mountain and Wu Gorge breathe out dark fear...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aX XX aX aX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 11001101100111111 110111001 111111100110 0010011110101 111110111111110 011101101010110 110010110011011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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