This is an analysis of the poem Your Picture that begins with:
It's with your laughing picture that I'm living now,
You whose wrists are so slender and crackle at the joints, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac XbXd cecd fdfd gcgc eheh beXe didiXdcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 001101010101 1111110110101 111111101001 1111110101011 1110011010010 001001011001 0011110010001 111011111101 101111101011 100101101111 111011011011 101101101011 1010010110110 101001101011 0010010010110 111001101101 01011101 010111 01010101 010101 11110111 110111 01010011 110111 11010001 110101 11011101 010001 11010100 11111 11011101 111111 01110111 1100010 01000101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and, from, your, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, the are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Your Picture;
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- history of its creation;
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