This is an analysis of the poem Pictures Still Say What Words Can Not that begins with:
I have no wish like others,
To feel and relive miseries....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXb Xcde afgf bXcg gceXhc Xeghgdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 01101100 10100110 11110011 11111 111111001 1111110001 111010110111 11110101 1101111 11110011 10111111111 1111110101 10111101 101101 11010011101 110110111 1011101001 11111 010 11 011101 1101111 111111100 0110011111 110011110001 10111111 11101 100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my, would, i are repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Pictures Still Say What Words Can Not;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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