This is an analysis of Male Phoenix Pleads With Female Phoenix by Ssu-mu Hsiang-ju.
This male phoenix has returned to his old home,
from roaming the four seas searching for his mate.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXccX aXcXXb
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 01101010011 01001110101 111111111010 11001010111001 11010010001010 01111101011 111011111001 111100110101 1010101010111 0010101010011 011001001110100 11101101101 11010011001111 0110111101001000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
this, to, me
Anaphora
how
