This is an analysis of the poem An Artist that begins with:
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,
Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and then...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcX decbXfegghifaajkalglmbkailnhgdi oniea XninXe jmlegagok bkkXnakXXjXjnfdkk XbXXjcagkcja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,31,5,6,9,17,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101001100100 1010111000100111 111011010 01101011111011010 10011010 01011101110110 110101 01010110010111110 111001 0011101011101010 01110111 11010110110111 001100101 1110111010110 1010010010111 10101110010011 11001001 110100110110001 11001101010010 0110101011 01001110110100 110010110110 10110101011110 101010101 01110011010010 1001010011 01011110101110 10101011111 110101100111001 1110010100 10100010011101 10010100010101 00110010001101101 11100111 1101110110010110 10 0100111011 010111010111101 111110000100 111101100111111 10010 111 110010100110110 10111110111 0101001100001101011 11111101 01101101010001111 0101101111111110 111110101 111100100100111110 10010110 110111010110110 10111010001 111001111001001 10111001010111 1101111100 11100010 100111101 010011110011 001001010101010100 1101000 10110100001101010 010101011 1100111100111 111100101000 11100100111011 01010100011011 10110010101 101111111101011 1 110010111110000 10111010 00111101111 110111 111110101 111110100111101 1 101111010 100100101010010 1100111001 1101101010110110 111110100 1101101010101101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, stone, in, and, that, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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- summary of An Artist;
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