This is an analysis of the poem To A Painting Of Echo that begins with:

Foolish artist, why must you sketch my face
And hound a goddess eyes cannot detect?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1010111111 1101011001 1101010111 1010010101 1101010101 1101001111 1110110111 0101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 327
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i is repeated.

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