This is an analysis of the poem "There Is A Gold Light In Certain Old Paintings" that begins with:
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There is a gold light in certain old paintings...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXabb X Xcacdd X ceXeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10011010110 11010010011 00110011110 01010110111101 101101101001 100100100001 1 1001010010110 01101100111 1111110101 111111100101 1101101101 1010010110001 1 010101010111 110101100110 010011101001 11001111110 111110110010 10010110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cross, prolong, existed are repeated).
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