This is an analysis of the poem Venus Anadyomene that begins with:

Out of what seems a coffin made of tin
A head protrudes; a woman's, dark with grease -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba cXXc dde beb X X XXXX XXXb eXX bXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010101 01100010101 10010101011 0101010101 1111010101 01010001000 111011101 0101011101 0101110101 10100110011 1101010001 1001000101010 101111001 11110101010 01001 1100 1110111111 0110110010 11101111 1011010110 1011111101000 110011111110 11101110110 11111101101 101111101111 10010011010 11000101111 11101111010 1111111111 110001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, qui, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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