This is an analysis of the poem To A Portrait Of that begins with:
IN THE ATHENIEUM GALLERY
IT may be so,--perhaps thou hast... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aaba cded cfdf bebe XgXg gdbd hiai feie ddhd cchc gcic edbd ciXi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100100 01010111 011101 10111111 110111 11110101 010100 01010111 010101 11011101 011111 11000111 111101 11110011 110101 10010101 011100 11110111 111101 11010101 011101 11110111 110111 11110111 111101 01110001 010111 01110100 011101 11110101 111101 111101001 010101 01010101 110101 01010101 110111 110001010 100101 01010101 010101 11010101 010101 11010101 011101 11011101 011101 00110111 110011 10110100 111101 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; thy, she, to, it, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, that, they, she, and are repeated.
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- summary of To A Portrait Of;
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