This is an analysis of the poem To Li T'Ai Po that begins with:

They are writing poems to you:
White devils who have not...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeXfgXbgdXXfffXcehXXhXXbfXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101001 110111 101010011 0111 10111100 1011001110 111 101101 11001010 10010001 101010001 101010 101010101 11011010 11010101011 11111101 100100101 011101 0111110101 0101000101 10101011 1111011 0100001100 1010100101 0111101 011111010 01111101 1101010 0100100 1011110101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 965
  • Average number of words per stanza: 176
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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