This is an analysis of the poem Imitated From The Japanese that begins with:

A MOST astonishing thing --
Seventy years have I lived;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aB ac BcBdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0101001 1000111 011010001 1010101 1000111 110101 1000111 1000111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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