This is an analysis of the poem Portico that begins with:
I am the singer who of late put by
The verse azulean and the chant profane,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXef gege abab hbhb efef dfdf dcdc dbdb babX dbXb idid Xfdf dfdf fefe ebeb dddd dddd ehei ghgh jfjf ecec khkh hbib eceX kfkf caXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 0110010101 0111010011 1101011101 1110110101 0101011101 1001100101 0010110101 1100110011 1101011000 1101011011 1101010100 0110110111 1111011101 0101101111 1010010101 0101110101 1101010101 010111010101 0111111001 0111010111 0101010111 0101010101 0100110101 1100010111 1001010101 11001010101 01001000101 01001110101 01001011101 010010001001 0101111011 1101000101 11010010100 0101101101 0001001101 0101110101 1101110001 0101110101 1101010101 11001010101 0110010101 1110010101 1101010100 1101110011 11001010101 010111000010 01010010111 0100100101010 11001110101 110010111110 11001010101 10010111000 0101011111 10111000101 1111110101 110101110 0101000101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111001001 1101011111 0100010101 1101110101 1001010101 11010011001 1101110001 10011011 1101011101 0101010101 1100010101 0101110100 10011100101 1001000111 1011010101 1001010101 101010101010 0101010101 11001101010 01110110011 01000101101 1001011101 1101011101 1111100101 01010100100 1111010001 1101010101 0101000101 0101111111 0101011111 0011010001 1100010001 1100110101 0101010101 1101010101 1101101101 0101010101 01000111000 1101000111 0011111101 1001010001 0111011101 01010001110 1101010101 11110100101 010101010101 10100010101 1000010101 010010010111 0101010101 01101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, lord, and, hour, my, oh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, with, my, let are repeated.
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- summary of Portico;
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