This is an analysis of the poem Tsushima Screen that begins with:
The perilous yellow sun follows with its slant eyes
masts of the shuddered grove steaming up to capsize...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccddbbXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0100101100011 100101101011 00101001001010110 110101110110 10110011 0111101 0100100101 101100101 111101010 011101011010 101000100010 11101101111010 10111001001010 0010101101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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