This is an analysis of the poem A Portrait that begins with:
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbdedffe X gaaggaXgbcbXbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1111000101 1101111101 1101011111 1100110101 101010110101 1001010101 11111010111 1101011111 1001110111 0101010101 0101111001 1011011111 1010111101 1101110101 1 1101010101 1111110111 1111010111 1101010001 0101000111 10101111101 0111101101 1101011101 11010110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010100 1101110111 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, she, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word o is repeated.
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- summary of A Portrait;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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