This is an analysis of the poem Pictures On Enamel that begins with:
When Astraled was lying, like to die
Of love's green sickness, all his bed was strown... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXbXbcb dedXefXfbeb agaggghgghg bbbbXijibjb egeggagXXXkc kgaggXgXegXegbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,11,11,12,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100110101 0111010111 010101101 1101010101 1111110101 1111111111 0101110100 11110010101 1011111111 110011110100 01011111110 1011000101 01010100010 1101111100 1011000101 1011110101 1011011000 0011010101 10001111110 0111010101 110011111100 1111010101 1111110101 11111010101 0011111111 1110010101 0101110101 101010111110 1111011101 1101010101 01101110010 110101010001 1011010101 0111111101 1101001111 01110011101 1011111000 1011010101 0100010111 0111111111 0101011101 0011110101 111111010101 1010010100 1111011001 01011100111 1101010101 0011011101 0011111111 0111010111 1101101101 11110111110 1101010001 0100010100 1101011001 1101010100 00101110011 1111010111 1011010111 1111110101 0100110110 01101010101 100001100 1101111101 11101100101 10001101100 0011010101 1101010101 1101010101 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, he, her, of, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines '' is repeated).
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- summary of Pictures On Enamel;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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