This is an analysis of the poem A Demand that begins with:
You promised to paint me a picture,
Dear Mat,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcdceecb fbbfbggbb gBdgdccdb hbihihhXb abcXXjjcb jBkjkllkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011010 11 11101101 111110011 11001000 0010110010 110011010 1001101 01111 010100010 01 11011011 0110010010 11101011 101011010 110110010 1101111 11101 1110010010 11 001111101 111010110 11101011 110010010 011011110 111011101 11001 110100010 01 11001111 111111010 01011001 1111110010 1101101010 11101010 11001 100011110 11 11101111 0111011100 1110101 111010111 010011111 0111111 11101 101110111 11 11101011 1110010011 11001011 010010010 110010110 01011001 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, by, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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