This is an analysis of the poem A Portrait Of 1783 that begins with:
Your hair and chin are like the hair
And chin Burne-Jones's ladies wear;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbXbbcccdeeedcXcfXggfeeecccccaaabhhhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11110101 10100001 01 11101111 11010101 10010101 1100 01100111 11011111 11110101 11010 01011101 11110101 11010101 11010 10010101 011101010 11011111 0101 110110110 11011101 11010111 0101 01110111 10110101 01011111 01011 11010111 11011101 11010011 0101 11100001 11111111 11011101 1101 01001101 01010101 11010101 01
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
- Average number of words per stanza: 226
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; not, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, you, and, we, the are repeated.
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