This is an analysis of the poem The Painter On Silk that begins with:
There was a man
Who made his living... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd XefX ccaf cddbfc cXabcce
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 11010 11010 011 11011010 110 1010001 11001 1111011011 11011101110 100011 11111 1110010 11 1111111 1110 1101 010 010100 10010 011 110 1101011 11111010 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines silk is repeated).
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