This is an analysis of the poem With The Quandongs that begins with:

IF you happen to visit the Western Plains
When the summer is young and green,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdedabfbcaeagfgfbhahXigifhehaeaecege
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100100101 10100111 1110100101 0010101 0100100101 1111111 101001101001 1010101 01110111 1100101 101011101 1000101 10100100101 0100101 101011111 10100101 110011101 1100111 1101111011 1100101 111010101 00100101 10110101 1100101 0101010111 1100101 1010100101 11100101 111010101 1100101 110011111 1100111 111100101 111001 110100101 1010101 1111101101 11110111 110100101 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1429
  • Average number of words per stanza: 281
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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