This is an analysis of the poem Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror that begins with:
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand
Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbdadefdaaeXccaXghcciedfdccbbXjdjakidjhlfhfjdjbmnfopXajcfgkhhdfdmjdfceqdjhnrnssdcjdtpjlhbdcdfjlsl jdfdXchdcnoacmjbdfdcflplpfddmljdenjcoldjodjXfXebkoX arirodokhhlbsXbhdjpdsajcdfpcsndndfcdcXcjdkfusbnfrrpjfacj cjfjXljjlcoucnXXacccjfblfccjdakcdnfccdorikoc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 100,51,56,44,60,242,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000000011 1010111010 1101000111001 1010100110111 1101001011010 00100100111 01101101 011000010010 0101001100011101 010110101010110 0011101101110 1010010101001 10101100100011 1000100101101 01101011110010 10001001010 0001001010 00010101 01100110111 11011010010 1010101010110 010110100001 01000110 10101000101 001001010001 1111011101 110110001010 00101011010010 0100010010101 1010010100101 0010010001110 11110101010 110101010000 1001001001100010 1100100101101100 101101011101 01001011101 10001111011 10001011 11011000010101 11001101010 01000101011100 00011110111 010011010001 11111010101 111001101 010100011100010 100111111 011101010 001010010 1111010100010 111010001 1000101101 0011010101 110111010100 1001100 1110111 100110010 110001010 110001010 0110110111 1001101011 0101101001 0110100010 10100100101 10100101011101 11010000101 101100101 1110110101 11010100111 0100010010010 01011001011 010110101 0101111 1110110010 11010010010 11111010101 1010110110 0010001010101 101011101 1101010010011 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- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3979
- Average number of words per stanza: 712
- Amount of lines: 553
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of, on, there, no, in, and, they, you, where, that, we, as, to, he, creation are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words is, the, a, but, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines portrait, there, it, things are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases there, tomorrow, it connect the lines.
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