This is an analysis of the poem Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer that begins with:

I'd walk her home after work
buying roses and talking of Bechsteins....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXddbaefbgcfeaXfbgf X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101 1010110010 11101 01111001 110110 111101 101 1101001 100101 0011 11 11011 11101 0110 111 10 1100111 1001 11110 111100010 1 1010011 11 1 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Portrait Number Five: Against A New York Summer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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