This is an analysis of the poem Before Her Portrait In Youth that begins with:
As lovers, banished from their lady's face
And hopeless of her grace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbcdeedcXXXfggbhbgffhghgiijjjkkXkllmmlXnggniggkkkkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001101 110001 1001010001 1001 111101011 010101 110101 00011101 1101001 1001010101 1101010001 1101000 01111111 1101010101 101111 0101010001 1111 11011101 0010 110100010101 0101 110111 0101 110100010010 0111010101 11100101010 111111 110111 1001010101 1011001 1010111 011101 1 01101 11110000 110101011101 1101 1101010101 1101011111 0111010101 1111000101 11000100100 01010011101 1100010101 111101 1111010100 11011101101 00010101011 1101111 111101 0101001011111 010111 010101001101 10011111101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1850
- Average number of words per stanza: 334
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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