This is an analysis of the poem Lines To A Portrait, By A Superior Person that begins with:
When I bought you for a song,
Years ago--Lord knows how long!--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcccb dddefffe bbbfgggf eeehiiih jjjjhhhj jjXckkkc cccallla
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 0011111 1111101 1110 1010011 1110101 0110111 1010 0110101 1011101 1011101 1011 1111101 1110101 1111101 1111 1110111 1110111 1011101 1010 1110101 1110111 1011101 0010 0010111 1110101 1011111 1110 1110101 0110111 0010111 1110 0011111 1110101 1111101 0010 1110101 1111101 1111101 0010 1010111 1011101 1011111 1111 11111010 11111010 10101110 1011 1110101 1110111 1010111 11110 1111101 0111101 1111101 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, they, other, have, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words other, and are repeated.
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