This is an analysis of the poem Pictures that begins with:

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Light, warmth, and sprouting greenness, and o'er all... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccccbddeefcffcgg XhiiaajXjkkefedhhhdhdhdhddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,28,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11110101101 1101110101 1000010111 01001110111 1001100101 1011000101 1101110101 0110010101 1011000111 111000111 0101000101 01001110101 1111110111 0101010111 1111010101 0101010011 0011110001 1 1001110111 0111010101 1101011111 1101010001 1101100101 11000111110 11010100010 01010001010 0111011001 01001100101 1011011101 1001010001 1111110001 1111110101 1101000101 10011100101 1011110101 1101011101 1011010101 11010101001 10100010111 0111011101 1011010111 00100101001 1101110101 1001101111 1000101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 985
  • Average number of words per stanza: 175
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; and, of, with, his are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Pictures;
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  • history of its creation;
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