This is an analysis of Floating Sweet Dumpling by Ho Xuan Huong.
My body is powdery white and round
I sink and bob like a mountain in a pond…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 1100100111 11111010001 011110111 11011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
Repeated words/phrases
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