This is an analysis of the poem Were I A Skilful Painter that begins with:
Were I a skilful painter,
My pencil, not my pen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcbDEBE Afgfahgh bfdXXeae bihigfefXabcbDEBE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 110111 11011111 111111 1001010 110101 11011101 0010001 0101010 111111 010011101 0010101 0111010 101111 110100101 0010101 0110010 010101 101010101 111100 01001110 010101 110111010 011101 11010010 011101 1010000101 010101 0101010 010101 101010101 110101 1111010 110111 11111111 011101 1001010 110101 11011101 0010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word were at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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