This is an analysis of the poem The Painter that begins with:
When my hair is thin and silvered, an' my time of toil is through,
When I've many years behind me, an' ahead of me a few,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb ccbbdX eeccffXddbbff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110111001110101 111000111010101 111011101010001 101011101010111 1111001101110101 101010101010101 111001100010111 111010101011111 111111100111101 001111101011111 101011101010111 111011001011101 101010111011101 111010101110101 111010101111101 111011101010101 101100011010101 011010101111101 111010101111101 111000101011101 111010101110101 111010101011101 111110101010111 001010101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', i've, of, to, i, when, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, an', i are repeated.
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