This is an analysis of the poem The Cold Clear Spring At Nanyang that begins with:

A pity it is evening, yet
I do love the water of this spring...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbaaXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101 1110100001 10110011 1011110 101010100 101110 011111 0110011 10001001 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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  • summary of The Cold Clear Spring At Nanyang;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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