This is an analysis of the poem On Seeing The Diabutsu--At Kamakura, Japan that begins with:
Long have I searched, Cathedral shrine, and hall,
To find a symbol, from the hand of art,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cbccbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 0101000101 1101010101 0101011101 1111010101 0101000101 1101010111 0101000101 0101010101 1011000101 0110010111 1111010001 1101010101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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