This is an analysis of the poem Battle Of Red Cliff that begins with:
The Yangtze flows east
Washing away...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbebfeXd gXaXafehcic X eeeeiijjgjjg X a b c a b e b X g a X e g i X e i h X c iXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,1,12,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111 1001 01010011 10011 101 10101101100110 0101101 1001101 01111101 101101010 11010101 1101011 11000101 110 0101110 111 111110010111 111101 0101 1111 01110101 110110010101 0101 01010101 00111111 10100110 10010100 1111001110101 10110001 10110001 11011101 101010101 0101101011 11010101 1011 0101 0110101 0111001 110111000101 01010011 111101 110110100110 01110101 110101000 1001010101 01010101 1101110010 110111 11111111100101 11010101 01011101 111111 111101010111 11110101 01010111 01111111 10110101 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines , years, air are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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