This is an analysis of the poem A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased, Recognized And Made More Vivid By Renoir that begins with:

Twenty-eight naked young women bathed by the shore
Or near the bank of a woodland lake...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXb caXcdbea X cbbfgccdce hd Xffciha cdiiXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,1,10,2,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101101101 110100111 1011110010 10011010011010 1010 111100101100 011110 0011010011000100 010 100101110 1011010010 101101010010110 1000010 0101101100 01101001000010 110010011010 10110110100101010 0100 111111010001100 11110010010100000110 10100100101011 010110 010101001010 111010111000100 1111010100100 1010100010001001 10110 0110000100110100 1011111110111010 110111111011010 01110010011010 00001010100 1101000110 1101100110110 01010110 101010110 110100111110110 1101101110101 1010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • 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; of, and, by, to, he, them are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

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