This is an analysis of the poem To Her Picture that begins with:
As one who on a lonely bed of pain
Feels the soft hand he felt when he was young; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc fefeaa ghghii jkjkdd flfleeXcecell
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 1011111111 1111111101 1011110101 1011011101 1111111101 0101010101 1111010111 1101011101 0101011001 1101111111 10110010011 1111111111 1111010001 1101011001 1101011111 1101100101 1101110101 1001011101 0011000101 11011100101 1011111101 1111010101 1101011101 1001011101 1110110111 1111111101 1111010101 01001111111 0111111001 1111111111 1101111101 0111110101 1101010101 1101110111 0101110101 1101111101 01001110101 1111110111 1101100011 1111111111 11111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word love is repeated.
The author used the same word yet at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of To Her Picture;
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