This is an analysis of the poem The Final Painting that begins with:
The white cloud passed over the land
there is sea always round the land...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbXXcdXXXeXddceXbabcXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111001 10111101 0101110101 0100101001 100100101011 0111010110 101110101 10111 0111001101 011111001010 011011010 01001110100010 001010001101 11110001 0110101 01010100100 000101011 0001101111 10010001 111100001001 1101001011011 10101010 0101011010 010101101 1010001010 01101000101 0000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1051
- Average number of words per stanza: 198
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; cloud, or, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines land is repeated).
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- summary of The Final Painting;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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