This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Lovely Women that begins with:

Third day, third month festival,
and the air fresh with spring;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXabcbdebXXXeeXXfXbede XdXXfcebXbee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 1011001 011011010 1010101 10100100 1110101 1010100 10001010 101011 100011 101111010 101010 100111 0111 10011011010 10001100 1100111 0111 110100 11101 01011001010100011010 01000111 10001010 011010101 1000110 11011 010111 100100111 11011001 1010110 1100101 01010010 10101 1110101010 00010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
  • Average number of words per stanza: 90
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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