This is an analysis of the poem A Lesson In Drawing that begins with:

My son places his paint box in front of me
and asks me to draw a bird for him....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXccdXac aXeefgXXXXhcbiecXcdehiifXX ibXgXbeXcbXXeabcg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,26,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100110101 111010111 0001011101 11010111 0100101 110001010 11110101 11111011 10100101 11101010101 11101010 1101 1101 1111100 010 111100100010 10101 1111 1110101010 01001 01001 100101 01001011 00101 1011101 0010110 11 110 11010 11101 01100101 11101001 0101001011 11101 1100101110 111101011 111001010 01101110010 1110101010 1000110101 1111 111111 110100100100 101010110111 1010010 011101111010 11110101110 101 1110101111 0110011 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, armed are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, armed are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of A Lesson In Drawing;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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