This is an analysis of the poem On A Portrait that begins with:
Blest art! What magic powers with thine may vie,
That brings (too seldom seen) a Brother nigh?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddffaabbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110100111 1111010101 1111000101 0101001101 0101100111 10110001001 1101111111 110100101001 01110100101 1111011101 11010100101 01001010101 1101110101 10101000101 1111010101 01010010101 11110010101 1101001101 0110111111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 896
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the, i are repeated.
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