This is an analysis of the poem Picture-Show that begins with:
And still they come and go: and this is all I know—
That from the gloom I watch an endless picture-show, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbc ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111111100111 100111110101 111101010111 011101110101 011111111101 010101000101 110101110101 0101011101001 101110110110 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Picture-Show;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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