This is an analysis of the poem When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted that begins with:
When Earth's last picture is painted
And the tubes are twisted and dried... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcXcdefeghihfgdgiebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110010 10111011 101010110 10101011 111111110 1111111 101001010 1110101 111001010 1100101 11101110 0100101 1111010 1011011 111111010 11001011 110010111 11001011 111011010 1101101 111010010 11001011 01011110 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they'll, and are repeated.
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