This is an analysis of the poem Changsha that begins with:
Alone I stand in the autumn cold
On the tip of Orange Island, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXabcXXdXaX ccebdaccXXce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100101 10101010 011010 1101011001 1110111 10101010 1010110 10101 1100101 101010101001010 101001000 1110101 11101100 1110010010 101110110 11011 111100 101001010 101110101 100110110 101001011 1100101111 0101 11001111010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 433
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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