Jiang Village by Du Fu: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Jiang Village that begins with:

Red evening clouds are mountainous in the west
and the sun's feet disappear under the horizon....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdcaacecf Xfcbggegghih idcaXigjjaaaiggc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011100001 1011101100010 1010100101 11010011001010 1111011001101 00111111101 00010111101 11111011100 101101101 1111011010 0111110 101101001 111101011011 1011101011 11011011011 011010101 1010110111 111101101 1001101 1101011010101011 110011100 11001001 111010111 1101011 01010110 111101101 11011011 01111011101 111101011 11011110 10010101 111111110 101011111100 111110110 10110111 011111010101 11001111101 101101 10101111111 110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Jiang Village;
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  • history of its creation;
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