This is an analysis of the poem Who Better Paints The Canvas that begins with:

Who better paints the canvas,
With qualified strokes....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Aabcde cecX AEAEEF eeff gdaXdX XaecaaX XhgeeeaXcheX AEAEEFacagac ecXbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,6,7,12,12,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 01011 11010010010 101000101 101010010100 0010001101 11001101 10001010 110011 1100101100 1101010 101010101 110101110 11011 10010110 10101101 110101001010 101 0101010101000100 111010100101 11 1011000 001101 110 01001000110100 1101101100111 101011100 101000011001 11011010100 110101100011101 11011010101 010100101010 1001000101000 1 11111010101 00101001010000010 11010101001010 11010010 0100110 01111 10110010010 100 1100110010001 1101010 1111 1101010 101010101 110101110 11011 10010110 10101101 010100101010 10010001 1101011010 1010110101010 01010010 1011100101 100 000111 010 000101010 01001100101 110011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    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; to is repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase abstracts connects the lines.

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  • summary of Who Better Paints The Canvas;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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