This is an analysis of the poem Portraits that begins with:
You were in the room, yet your body
Was stone cut in drooping lines...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbaXaXXcXXbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100011110 1110101 110100100111 101111101 100101111 1110101001011 111110011 0111010101 1100111 1 1110101100 1111110001 1111111010010 111110101 1111011 111000101 111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 663
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 17
- 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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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- summary of Portraits;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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