This is an analysis of the poem At The Banquet To The Japanese Embassy that begins with:
AUGUST 2, 1872
WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaaa bbcc ddaa eeff cXcX aaaa gghh iibX aajX jjee ggbb ddgg gXaaXccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011 11011001001 01001011011 111001011001 101101101111 11111111101 11001001011 01001011011 111011101011 1110110010011 101001111001 1110011011101 11011011001 101011011101 11011011011 111101001111 1111111101011 1101100101 101010001110 010001001111 10110101101 01011011111 11100011001 01101011101 11111001001 11011011001 101001001001 111111001010 101011001011 111000011001 111001101001 11001001101 101011011011 101011001101 001011011011 011111011111 011111001011 11101101101 01001101011 001101101001 111101101001 11011011101 101001101010 101101011001 101111011011 001111001001 101111001001 10011101101 11111011011 11101011111 111111001001 11011101111 11011011001 01001011001 101001010001 01011101001 111001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, have, we, and, it, you, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word you'll at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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