This is an analysis of the poem Down Zhongnan Mountain that begins with:
Down the blue mountain in the evening,
Moonlight was my homeward escort. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcXdabdcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101100010 11111001 1011111 10100111 1110011001 1010100101 111101110 11111111 111100101 1100101011 11001001001 11101110111 111011111110 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 583
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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