This is an analysis of the poem Seeing The Duke Of Ormond's Picture, At Sir Godfrey Kneller's that begins with:

Out from the injured canvas, Kneller, strike
These lines too faint; the picture is not like.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddeebbffeegg hhddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001010101 1111010011 0111111101 10011101001 1101100001 1011010101 10001010101 11010101001 1001110001 11011101001 10010010101 1111110101 11010010111 1101010111 1011000111 1101101101 0111010101 0101110111 1001111111 1101111101 00110011001 1001110101 1111010101 0101111101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thine is repeated).

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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