This is an analysis of the poem Mrs. Benjamin Painter that begins with:
I know that he told how I snared his soul
With a snare which bled him to death. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabccdXXcXXXddaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 00111101 110111 110010111 1011110010111001 1101010110 101001010001011 1110101011 010101101 1011010010010 1101 11010101 10101010110100 011010100010 00101111001 1001110011100 1001111 111110101 0100100101 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 818
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; him, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, every are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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