This is an analysis of the poem Waterfall At Lu-Shan that begins with:
Sunlight streams on the river stones.
From high above, the river steadily plunges--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 010101010010 1101010010 0101101010 111 110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 66
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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