This is an analysis of the poem Art Is Long - Hair Is Shorter that begins with:
When artists wore a flowing mane,
Then, in a sentimental vein,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffgghh iijjbbbX kkllaamm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 10010101 01001101 11110111 11111001 11110101 10010101 01010001 11010001 00110111 01010111 01110101 11011101 11001001 01010001 01110101 11110011 11111101 11111101 11011111 11111001 11010101 11110101 0111010 01111101 11010011 11010101 11110111 11010011 110100011 11011101 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i've at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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