This is an analysis of the poem The Picture Of Sappho that begins with:
I.
THOU! whose impassion'd face ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcddcX eefggfX hhfiifX iifjjfa aajjXja iikkkkX llimmiX ddfaaXX nnhjjhbXddfkkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110101 010101 10010111010 1100101 1100011 10010001010 1 1101001 110101 01011101010 111111 010101 010110111010 1 110111 010101 11010111010 111101 1001001 00111101110 1 101101 0101001 010011100110 110111 010101 11010111110 1 111111 110001 111101001010 100110010 1011110 11010111010 1 110111 110101 110101111010 1011001 110001 01000110010 1 110101 101101 11110011010 001001 1001001 11100101010 1 101101 111111 01010101110 0111001 101101 01111101100 1 100111 111101 1101111101 1100101 101101 01111011001 1 101101 110101 01110101110 111101 111111 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Picture Of Sappho;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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