Analysis of Three-Mountain Pass
Ho Xuan Huong 1772 (Nghe An) – 1822
A cliff face. Another. And still a third.
Who was so skilled to carve this craggy scene:
the cavern's red door, the ridge's narrow cleft,
the black knoll bearded with little mosses?
A twisting pine bough plunges in the wind,
showering a willow's leaves with glistening drops.
Gentlemen, lords, who could refuse, though weary
and shaky in his knees, to mount once more?
Scheme | XX XX XX XX |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 0110100101 1111111101 0111010101 0111011010 0101110001 10001111001 10011101110 0100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 369 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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