This is an analysis of the poem Visiting A Taoist On Tiatien Mountain that begins with:
Amongst bubbling streams
a dog barks; peach blossom...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbaXXaaXXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 011001 011110 010011 11011 010101 110011 110010 11110 0011 10011 10101 11111111011 01110 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.
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