This is an analysis of the poem The Sisters - A Picture By Barry that begins with:
The shade for me, but over thee
The lingering sunshine still;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cded XfXf ccec Xdcd Xcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01111101 0100111 11000101 110101 11011101 100111 11000101 010101 11010111 010111 11011111 111101 110001010 110101 11110101 011101 01111101 010111 110001010 100101 11010111 111101 01110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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