This is an analysis of the poem Love’s Portrait that begins with:

Out of the day--glare, out of all uproar,
Hurrying in ways disquieted, bring me... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcddX efefcaac gcgcaXba agaghcch XddXciic eXeXdccd jejekXXk lmlmniin
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001110111 1000110011 0101110101 1010010111 0110010111 1011001101 010001001001 1111111110 1001111101 1101010101 1101010101 1011001101 01010100110 1001110111 1011010011 11010101110 1111010101 1101011101 1101001111 00101110001 00101111101 0101010100 1101011111 1011000111 1101011111 1101111101 1110011101 1001111101 1001011001 1101011111 0101111011 1001001111 110111010010 1101110101 1111110111 11100111010 0111111111 1111110111 1001011101 1101101100 1111110011 1111110111 0011110101 1101010110 1100111011 1110011111 1111000111 0011110111 1101111111 0101011101 0100011111 1111000101 1101010101 11000100100 11101101100 1011111111 11001010111 11011100010 1111110101 10000100010 0101011111 11110101001 1111111101 1100111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, thy, what are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, thy, what, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Love’s Portrait;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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