Analysis of Day Sleeping Girl
Ho Xuan Huong 1772 (Nghe An) – 1822
Summer breeze is sporadically blowing,
Lying down the young girl slides into sleeping.
Her bamboo comb loosely attached to her hair,
Her pink bra below her waist dropped down fair.
On these two Elysian mounds, the nectar is still remaining,
In that one Fairy rivulet, the current seems to stop flowing.
At such a view, the gentleman hesitated,
Odd to leave, yet inconvenient if he stayed.
Scheme | AABBAACD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010010 10101110110 00111001101 0110101111 1111101011010 01110101011110 11010100100 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 389 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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