This is an analysis of Tou-Tsong by Louis Bouilhet.

Le long du fleuve jaune, on ferait bien des lieues,
Avant de rencontrer un mandarin pareil.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX abbX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01011110111 010100110010 1110110001 11111011111 11010110110 110011110101 11110111111 110100111010 11111111 11001110110 111001111 111001111001 11101110100 011111110110 110100101010 11100110100 1101111001 100110101100 110101110100 111110011110 1101110101 0100110110 11110010100 110111101 11000111110 11101111111 110100110101 1101101110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

son, les, le, de