This is an analysis of the poem I See You With Your Bamboo Rods that begins with:
I see you with your bamboo rods
Go fishing up the K'e....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaab Cdeed Ccffc XXddb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 110101 11111101 11111101 111101 01000111 110101 11110101 11100101 111101 01000111 010111 11111111 110101011 010101 10010101 011001 11111101 11110101 011101 01000011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; i, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, wife, him, again are repeated).
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