This is an analysis of the poem On A Picture that begins with:
Why bends she o'er that glittering toy
With such an earnest gaze,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb daXX XcXc dede bdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001 011101 10110101 110011 1111101 111111 11110101 010100 11100101 110001 11010101 111100 11111101 1100101 01001101 110111 01110111 110101 11000101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
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- summary of On A Picture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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