This is an analysis of the poem Painted Head that begins with:

By dark severance the apparition head
Smiles from the air a capital on no ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cXXd efgX XXfg faae adXe abab XaXX eecX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11100010101 1001010011 1010010011 10101010010 1111010001 1100100100 10110101010 1011000101 11101100111 01100011100 010101010000 0110000101 01011101010 0100110101 1110110101 1011101001 100001000101 1001010011 110010010101 11011000110 10100110001 110100010001 1011110011 0100011010 11101010101 1101110011 1101110111 10010010110 001010100010 01100100101 0011010101 1110001000 0111101111 11110100100 010100111 01010101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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