This is an analysis of the poem The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter that begins with:
After Li Po
While my hair was still cut straight ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcdedfgeXXXh aiijX dgejb cjefec bbheXhcXbhjXXcaX c Xh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,5,5,6,16,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1111111 01110 11101110 10 111101110 1 110111100 11 11111000100 10 111001011 010 111110111 11011010 1001111101 100101110 11 1011110 10101100100 1 01010101010 1111011 1011010 110011011010 01010 1110111 01011001 101 1111111 1 10110101 010010 1101001 011100100 1 011011010 10010 100100110 1111110 01110110 1000101 1111011 11011011 111111 0101101 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i, forever are repeated.
The author used the same word at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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