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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  • summary of Portrait D'Une Femme;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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