This is an analysis of the poem Chingkangshan that begins with:
Below the hills fly our flags and banners,
Above the hilltops sound our bugles and drums. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111110 01011111011 011001101 1101111 0101010101 111111010 0100101001 110100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our is repeated.
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