This is an analysis of the poem What Makes An Artist that begins with:
We got to talking art one day, discussing in a general way
How some can match with brush and paint the glory of a tree,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa Xbab Xcac Xdad XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111010001001 11110111010001 1101110101010101 11010111010111 1111010111110101 11001111011111 1111110111011010 01110100110101 1111011100110101 11110111010101 1101010111010101 11010101110101 11011001110101000 11110100111111 0101000111010011 11000111100101 1111010101010111 11110001110101 1101011111111111 11111101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, he, and, we, of are repeated.
The author used the same word 'though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of What Makes An Artist;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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