This is an analysis of the poem My Cousin's Portrait that begins with:
Just where the early sunbeams fall,
And waken me at dawn,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdX cbabee fcdcgg gfXfee fhXhbb bbXbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110111 01011101 010101 1101010111111 11011100110110 11010101 110101 11111111 101111 11110111110111 11110101011011 110010111 0101011 010011101 110001 11010101111111 01110111110001 11110101 011100 10110111 110111 11110111011111 11010111010111 11111101 010101 110100111 011101 11111111010111 11101101110101 11010101 01001001 11011101 011101 11110011011111 11011111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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