This is an analysis of the poem Lover's Gifts Xlii: Are You A Mere Picture that begins with:
Are you a mere picture, and not as true as those stars, true as
this dust? They throb with the pulse of things, but you are...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXeXbXfgebdadXhdXchgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110110111111111 011100101111 010010110101 011111011111 11001111010111 11101111001011 0011100010111101 11011100100110 1010111100011111 11101111111110 110 101001011100101 0110100011011010 010010101001011 100010101110101 1001 100111011111011 01001010111111 101001100010001011 10110111010111 110001001010011 111100111110011 0100110111100110 1010111111011011 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1461
- Average number of words per stanza: 278
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you, as, of, in, with are repeated.
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