This is an analysis of the poem Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Antwerp) that begins with:
“Messieurs, le Dieu des peintres”: We felt odd:
'Twas Rubens, sculptured. A mean florid church... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccadefedf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0101110111 1101001101 1011110101 0100010111 0101111101 11110010101 1111111101 0101001111 0001011011 110100101001 1111100100 1101110101 0011011101 1101000111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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