This is an analysis of the poem The Double Ninth Festival that begins with:
To the tune of "Intoxicated Under the Shadow of Flowers"
Light mists and heavy clouds,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ab Xb Xc dXe dX eX X Xca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,3,2,2,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010100000100110100 111101 101001101 001010 0100101001 00011 1010101100 010011 10111011 1111001 10101111 10001001 11101 1010001 11101001010 1010111010 11111110 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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