This is an analysis of the poem But The Artist... that begins with:

But the artist sat the nude model on the table and moved her legs apart. The girl hardly resisted and merely covered her face with her...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ab X a X X X X X XXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010110101011010101100101101001001 100011001110111010100111101011101011010110010 011001110101011100111011111111001110111010111101 01010111011010110110011010011011010100101011001100011111011010 10000110111001011001101100101111010 1110010101001001011010100111111011001 1001101010100110011011000111110101110010100101011001101010011101111011111100001010001 100000110111011011110011100111110100 110010010010010011001001001011111111001 111001100101110000010110101001110101011111101101011 111000101001011100110101011101011111001100010111011010101 111000010000101010100111100011000100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 185 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 33
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, to, girl, that, said, but, artist, model, nude, this, zolotogromov, seductive, you, in, of, abel'far are repeated.

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

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