This is an analysis of the poem The People's Liberation Army Captures Nanking that begins with:
Over Chungshan swept a storm, headlong,
Our mighty army, a million strong, has crossed the Great River. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111 110100101110110 01001010010101101010 001010101110101 010101110101001 11111010010101 0101011110101 11101001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 473
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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