This is an analysis of the poem The Portrait that begins with:
This is her picture as she was:
It seems a thing to wonder on,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdeed fgfgaabba cbcbhhiih aiaihhcch fbjbddkkl mamabbggb ababaahha nlnlaaooa ililmmggm ebebfjeef aeaeggacg ebebXdggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00010111 01010101 11110001 11011111 11011101 01111110 111010111 01010011 11010100 011010111 11010111 01010111 10010101 11000111 01110101 11001101 11010101 01010101 010011001 11011110 10110101 11110101 01011011 1001100111 10110111 11111101 11110111 01111111 10111111 10110001 11011101 11010111 01010101 11100101 11011101 11010001 11111111 10010101 11011100 101101101 10111100 110100110 10110101 11010011 11010101 111101111 11110111 11111111 10010101 11111101 01010101 111100111 01010101 01010101 110100011 11110111 11000111 11110111 11010111 01111100 11010101 11000101 01011001 11111101 11011101 00110011 01111101 11010101 11110111 01110101 11011110 10110111 11111101 11110111 10010101 11111111 10111101 10011101 10110111 01011101 11010001 11111111 11011111 110010111 11011101 11111101 11111100 11001001 010100101 110101001 1011101111 01010111 11010011 11011101 11111111 11011101 01010001 01000111 11010111 100111001 11110101 11011100 10010101 101011100 11111100 11010111 11010111 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Portrait;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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