This is an analysis of the poem The Very Image - To Rene Magritte that begins with:
An image of my grandmother
her head appearing upside-down upon a cloud...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcd eXbbX aaXfc XcbXX aeebb ffXfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001110 010101110101 01011010 000101110 101 11001101 0011100011 010110010 0111001 10111001 1100001010 0010011010 101001001 011101101 101101 11001100 0100010010 01101011 01010101 010001 1100010 00110010 10111001 11101 0010101 111100 11010 101110 010110 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word an at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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