This is an analysis of Stagnant Water by Wen Yiduo.
Here lies a ditch of hopeless stagnant water,
Fresh breezes can't breathe half a ripple from its skin.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbXb bcdX acdc adbd AeeeXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,6,
- Metre: 11010101010 110111010001 10111101101 1101100100 01010011001 101011101001 11111010101 11111101001 1101100100110 1001010011 110111010011 111010100101 11010100110 1111010101 0011010101010 1101010101 11010101010 01011110011 101101001010 1111010001 1001110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
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