This is an analysis of the poem On A Picture that begins with:
When Summer o'er her native hills
A veil of beauty spread,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbb cdXd XbXb Xefe adfdXbcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 110100101 010101 11110101 110101 01010101 011101 01010101 110101 01010101 110111 11000101 010101 11011101 11001001 11000101 110001 11110111 011101 01011111 110001 11011101 010001 11110111 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, there are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of On A Picture;
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- idea of the verse;
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