This is an analysis of the poem From the Harem of the Palace of Wei that begins with:
The wind blows from the North.
He looks and his eyes are cold....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef cgcg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001 1110111 11111111 1111 011101 01111101 011111101 1101 110111 011101 111011111 1101 011101 010111 1111011 1111 01000011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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