This is an analysis of the poem On Seeing A Pupil Of Kung-Sun Dance The Chien-Ch`i that begins with:
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence of Yuan Ch`ih, Lieutenant-Governor of...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a a aa X Xaa bcdb Xc Xd db bXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,1,3,4,2,2,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001100101011101010010000110101000111111010111011 011010110011101111010110100111001 10100011010111111010110111011 10101111100001111000111010001 001001100101000001101110100101000101101111111001000010001010101010011010111011011010001001110111111110100001101 10110101011001110111110101010 1010001100101001001011100100111 1110100010101011 100111011000110100100101001 11110110111111000100001 1001010010011001011101000101011 1 011110101011111101001110001001011111111011010011011101101101110100101110111001101010100 10110100110110101001101010010101010111101001101 010101010111111001001100100110100100011100100011000101001101010011001001101011110100011100 01011010010 0011010111110011100101001000111001111101001100010101010100101010001101101011110010001101 10101010 1001010101001010101101010110110110010100101111101011001011010 01100011101111111111010111100110001101110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 172 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 32
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, ch, her, in, and, that, this, now, to, like, there, she, have are repeated.
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