This is an analysis of the poem The Visionary Portrait that begins with:
I.
As by his lonely hearth he sate, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXcddX babaee X dfdfggX chchiia ajajkka lklkaaX mbmbaXX cdcdXgX dgdgiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,6,1,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11010111 01100101 110011000 0101 10011101 11011101 1 11110111 11000101 11100111 11101111 10110111 11010101 1 10011101 111001001 0111111 1101 11111101 11010101 1 11111101 01011101 11011101 1111 11110111 11010001 1 11010001 01100101 10011101 0101 11011101 110111001 1 10010101 110010101 100101001 1101 110000101 01010011 1 111100110 11010101 100111110 0101 11010100 01001100 1 11110001 01011101 11110101 1101 110101100 01011111 1 11010101 11010111 11010101 1100 11010101 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; too, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whose, and are repeated.
The author used the same word 'let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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