This is an analysis of the poem A Picture that begins with:
Through the half-open'd casement stream'd the light
Of the departing sun. The golden haze... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeefafaXXfafffaddgghhfgfgffgiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110100101 0001010101 0011011111 0011011101 1100101111 01010101011 1000110111 1001011000 1101110101 11010010111 0100110101 01010111001 0101110101 0101010111 1101000101 1101000101 01001100101 11010100101 1101011101 010101001001 1011010111 0011110101 1111100101 10001010101 0101110101 01001011111 10110100101 1101011111 0101110101 01010010101 1011010011 0111111101 10101100101 1001010111 1011110101 1101010101 1011010111 1001010101 0111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1741
- Average number of words per stanza: 315
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; with, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, with are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Picture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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