This is an analysis of the poem To An Artist that begins with:

YOU tell me these great lords have raised up Art?
I say they have degraded it. Look you,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaacdaeXfgXacgahXefbcaXXaagdcXaXhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111111 1111010011 1100110101 0101010111 01010100101 01011101101 0111010101 1111011101 0101000101 10010101001 01101110101 10110101001 11001111101 1111110101 1011010101 11010011110 1101010101 100101010110 01010010101 11110010101 11011001111 1101010111 10000010011 1100110101 1101111110 01010010000 1011010101 11111100101 11001010011 1111010001 0101010111 1010101110 01001010111 101001010101 0101110111 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1606
  • Average number of words per stanza: 284
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; from is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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