This is an analysis of the poem Her Portrait that begins with:
Were I an artist, Lydia, I
Would paint you as you merit,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbb ccXc dede cXcX fbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101001 1111110 11111110 1001110 01011111 1001010 11011101 1111010 11110001 1111110 11010100 0101010 11110111 1111110 01110101 1011010 01011011 1111010 11111101 1101110 10010101 1101010 111101011 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; your, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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- summary of Her Portrait;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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