This is an analysis of the poem Picture Of A 23-Year-Old Youth Painted By His Friend Of The Same Age, An Amature that begins with:

He finished the painting yesterday noon. Now
he studies it in detail. He has painted him in a...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabXXccbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11001010111 11000011110100 1010101101 1011101001101 101010110101 100010001001 01100110100 1010101001 100010110001 10001001001 110010001111001 11110010101 1111101011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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