This is an analysis of the poem Tou-Tsong that begins with:
Le long du fleuve jaune, on ferait bien des lieues,
Avant de rencontrer un mandarin pareil....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX abbX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011110111 010100110010 1110110001 11111011111 11010110110 110011110101 11110111111 110100111010 11111111 11001110110 111001111 111001111001 11101110100 011111110110 110100101010 11100110100 1101111001 100110101100 110101110100 111110011110 1101110101 0100110110 11110010100 110111101 11000111110 11101111111 110100110101 1101101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; son, les, le, de are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Tou-Tsong;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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