This is an analysis of the poem On A Picture Of The Finding Of Moses By Pharoah's Daughter that begins with:

This picture does the story express
Of Moses in the bulrushes.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb caaaddeeffbbgghhbbiibbgXccXieebbbbjkhhbbiiggllkXXleejjggmmiihhmX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,64,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010101001 01000100 110000101 11011101 10110100 01000100 11010011 01001010 10010101 11000101 01010101 11101001 1110001 01010011 1010101 0010101 0011101 10011101 01011101 11110101 01010101 11010101 11111111 01000111 10000101 10010111 01110101 01110110 01010111 01110101 11010010 10110001 1010001 01010111 01000101 10101001 01010101 11110101 01111010 01010101 11111101 10011101 001101001 11010101 11010001 01010101 11010101 11110101 10111111 11010111 01010101 110111010 11010101 11010111 11010101 10110101 010101010 000111110 00010101 1010101 11011011 11010111 10110101 11011101 01110101 11011111 110001101 011001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 214
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, him are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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