This is an analysis of the poem As In A Picture that begins with:
WHITE, on a cliff they stood ;
Beyond, a cypress wood.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff bb aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 010101 110111 111111 101111 100101 110101 110001 010101 110001 011111 1001001 1101001 111011 110011 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 52
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of As In A Picture;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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