This is an analysis of the poem Reply To A Friend that begins with:
White clouds are sailing above Mount Chiuyi;
Riding the wind, the Princesses descend the green hills. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001110 1001010001011 111001001011 11110111 101111110 011010101101 11110110001 00101001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 402
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Reply To A Friend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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