This is an analysis of the poem On A Painting By Patient B Of The Independence State Hospital For The Insane that begins with:
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These seven houses have learned to face one another, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabXXcdaX X dXcbabbXb X bebbXeaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,9,1,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101011011010 11100101011011 11100111111010 101001001110001 1100001001010 01011001001101 11001000101 1100110101010010 11101000101 1 11110100101 11110100101010 11011001011101 101111101011010 10010101111001 1010111001011 100100010010 101001110110110 1100100010010110 1 0101011001001 1010010110111 1101001001010 01110001001 11101011111 111101101011 10000110100100100 11001011111100 1101101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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, children, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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