This is an analysis of the poem Farewell To The God Of Plague that begins with:

So many green streams and blue hills, but to what avail ?
This tiny creature left even Hua To powerless! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXbXXX XXaXbXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111110101 01010110100100 10010010111001 1001010110100 100111101010101 01001110100101001 101111000101 1011110101 001110101111 11010001110111 1011011010 1101010111 1010110110101 10110101101010 11010111111 1010011101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • 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; of is repeated.

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