This is an analysis of the poem Lines that begins with:
ON THE CELEBRATED PICTURE BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, CALLED THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS
While young John runs to greet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbbaccaaddXXbebeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010110101101010001 111101 010101 010101010010 0011010 1000101011101010 11110101 0111010 0111110 1101001 011111111101 1101 110101 010011 111111 11010 01010100 1001010 010100 101101 10110101 1111010101 11110101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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.
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