This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Jade Cup that begins with:
A jade cup was broken because old age came
too soon to give fulfilment to hopes; after drinking...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcccXaaXXdXbedbeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111001111 1101100011010 110111111 10011011011 100011101001 11010100111 11100111110100 1010010010010 1001001100110 11100100 010010011100 11100100110100 111111010101 0100010001110 1101111010 1101010111010 100110010000101 10100010001010 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 839
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, i, with are repeated.
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