This is an analysis of the poem Before A Painting that begins with:
I knew not who had wrought with skill so fine
What I beheld; nor by what laws of art... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110111 1110111101 1101011111 1100110111 1011111111 10011100001 11010110101 11001011101 1101010101 1101001001000 0111010101 1111110101 1101010101 0100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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