This is an analysis of the poem Portrait D'Une Femme that begins with:
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
London has swept about you this score years...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccXXXXdeafagfcbcbXXdbXeXgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 1011011010 1111101101 01011010011 1101011101 1111110111 1101011100 11010001001 111101100 11001011111 1111011111 1011011101 1111111101 11010011001101 111101 10111100010 1111110111 10010010101 1111011101 1101010111 11010010101 0101010011 1011001110 1111011111 11011001001 1111011101 00110100111 1101000111 101111 1001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1286
- Average number of words per stanza: 231
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; you, one, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, that are repeated.
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