This is an analysis of the poem Why I Am Not A Painter that begins with:
I am not a painter, I am a poet.
Why? I think I would rather be...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XdbXXXbXeeXae fdXebfedXXcXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,13,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011010 11111100 01011111 110110 010010110 101110101 1111111 110101010 1001010100 1001110111 111001010 0101111101 111100100 101001000 11101 1010111011 111111100 010101101 0110101000 110111 10101110 11110100 101100100 1111100100 1110110110 010111010 101011011 010011100100 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, drink, and, go, of are repeated.
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- summary of Why I Am Not A Painter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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