This is an analysis of the poem The Heathen Chinee that begins with:
Which I wish to remark,
And my language is plain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBABCb dedeae fgfgdg dfdfXf hihigi fXfece eeeeXX ffXfjX jkjkckXaBABCb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 111001 111111 111111 01010010 101111001 11101 111101 001001 111101 1010110111 111001011 011001 111101 101001 111111 1110110110 11001101 111011 111101 011001 101101 1111111010 001111111 101101 001111 111001 101011 1111010110 101001001 101101 11101 101111 011001 1111110110 101111101 111111 111011 111001 11100 1110101110 11111101 001101 101101 1010110 101101 0011111010 001101100 001101 111011 111001 111101 1111011010 101001011 101101 111001 111111 111111 01010010 101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, in are repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Heathen Chinee;
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