This is an analysis of the poem Nothing Natural About It At All that begins with:
That portrait painted,
Hangs much too low, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAcB cXdaed ecfe cgfabe h ff Xeiaf fjXX XkdchgX ABAcB bX cjX ifXf hfik efihhf bXffcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,6,1,2,5,4,7,5,2,3,4,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 1111 0100010010 100101 10101 11011 1111101 101011111 10010101 01001 0111 1001110010 10101001010 1110101010010 110101101 01010 10011 1010010 101001 01001 1011 110 10010 1001 1110010 01001000010 1101 1010010 01001 11100110 110111000 10001000 111010101 0011010 001001 1101 01010011 010001 1010010 00101001001 11010 1111 0100010010 1001 10101 01 100000 10010110010 1001000100 11010 00110100 01010101 10100010010 0101101 1001001 1100 11111 0111 0101110 011111 11010001011 01000100 10100 11011 11001 110111 11101110 10001 01001 001101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, hello, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hello, this, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hello, ambiance are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase hello connects the lines.
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- summary of Nothing Natural About It At All;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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