This is an analysis of the poem To A Picture Of Eleanor Duse that begins with:
Was ever any face like this before —
So light a veiling for the soul within,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcddXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011001 1101010101 1111110011 1101010101 110101101 0101010101 1111010010 1101110101 1111111101 1101111101 1111111101 1111010111 01001100110 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 604
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; so is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, oh are repeated.
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