Poem Analysis of Three—with The Moon And His Shadow by Li Po for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Three—with The Moon And His Shadow that begins with:

With a jar of wine I sit by the flowering trees.
I drink alone, and where are my friends?...

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Rhyme scheme: aabcbbXbdXX bdXcXXc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0010111101001 110111111 101011111 1111110010 1111111011 110100111 101111 1111110011 11101 010011011 111000110011 110111001 11111110001 11011110100 10110011011 1110101101 1101110110 1010111001
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
Average number of words per stanza: 69
Amount of lines: 18
Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; i, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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Three—with The Moon And His Shadow by Li Po: poem analysis

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