This is an analysis of the poem My Last Duchess that begins with:
FERRARA.
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddeeffffddffggccXXffaahhffiiaaddffdbffbbffXXccjjXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,56,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010 1111010101 1010100111 1101011101 1100011111 1111111011 1101011101 1011110100 0111000101 1011111111 0101111111 1111111011 1101111101 1101111111 0101010111 0100010101 11010010101 1011011111 1101010101 1111010111 1100111101 1101110111 0111111111 11000111100 1111011101 1111110101 0100011001 0101011001 1001010011 1101010111 11000100101 1111111011 1111111011 1100110011 0100011101 0101010111 0111110110 1101111110 1101011111 1101011011 01010011101 0101101101 10110110111 1001111111 10011011101 1011011101 1111010111 1001111111 0100011101 0111011000 0101011110 0111000101 1011011101 1100110111 0101110101 1001110100 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1259
- Average number of words per stanza: 231
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; they, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or are repeated.
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