This is an analysis of the poem The Great Chinese Dragon that begins with:
The great Chinese dragon which is the greatest dragon in all the
world and which once upon a time was towed across the ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb cdef egbhbac hhicebdj eikah baabg leaiieh ejbbhjeacb ebhhkmfeaX lXbkhb ahnaabeakghmhehokoichepcpeXeckbjocelhq ekeneaeabXoq
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,8,5,5,7,10,10,6,38,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101001010010 1111010111010 01010101010011011 0111101010000111 10101101010101 101010101010011 111110111010 01101111101010101 10101101110101001 00101101101011101 011001110001001010 100011011010010 1110111011001011 11011001001001100 101000101111010011 110101101001010 010111100110101 10101010110011110 010101010100110101 010100001111001 1010100100101010 110100001001011011 010010 11010101110111 1010010111010110 01110010100100100 110101101101010 110101 10101101101000011 010010100010100110 101110011011100 111001001101010001 001010101000111 1011110111011110 01101010110101 100101011110110 1010101000111110 0011011001010010 10101101110011 101100111110111 1110110011111 11011101101011 11010010001111 010101100110110 111010001000111 1110100101010110 01011010101101101 010101111111000 11100101010101 0110011010100101 1010110110010101 111100101110101 111100001010110 110101101101010 1100100100001100 101110101110001 101100101010011 1101101111011 1001010011101010 1111 1111110010100110 101110101100100 001011111001111 11100110011010 10110110011101 10111 110010001001101000 101010100100100101 001001111001110 11100111110110 101111110101100 111001010111111 10111111100101 1101101110001100 10101101111110 101010100111011 1001101001010110 1101111001110101 101001101101001 110100010111111 11110100011101010 11101000101010000100 11111100100101000 100101010100011011 1000101011001110 101111001111111 100100101010110 00100101001011001 001010111001111 111011100100101 101011100100100111 010010101101111 10111010101001 11101101001001 11010110101101 10110010101111 100101011010100 100 1 11 01101001101010001 1010101011111000010 11101000111110 101010010000101 110101101100101 10011101110011 10111101111 11010111010 0101111001010001 1011010100010110 101111101100110 1011101110110 100010110101101 11010111111011 01010111010101010 1000111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dragon, and, in, of, out, here, he, down are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, which are repeated.
The author used the same word and 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 the, in, a are repeated).
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