This is an analysis of the poem Flesh Tint that begins with:
Like a painting by Velazquez
A woman stands...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcX dXb Xc dXbXdX beXXXXXXXXeXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 0101 01001 110101 100 10 11011010 001011 1101 10011010 1100011011 11000011 10101110 01011 10 00100100 101010011 10101 110010100100 10100 1010010001000 10101100010 100100 10100011001111 101001 1010100100101 100 01001001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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