This is an analysis of the poem Everyday Characters V - Portrait Of A Lady that begins with:

IN THE EXHIBITION OP THE ROYAL
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  • Rhyme scheme: ab cbcbadXd eXedabab fgXXhahX ghghieie gXgjkdkd ldldmimi mamanbnb XigiiXii cXcXeXef gigioXob iiiihaXa pipikiki qjqjhdhdXoboblili
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010101010 0100 11110101 011011110 01010111 011111110 00010101 010101010 110111110 110111010 11010101 110011110 10111101 101111110 111110010 111100010 111111111 110111010 111101101 1110111010 110101111 110111100 11011111 010101010 01110111 110101010 11010001 110101010 11010101 0100101010 11101101 011111110 01011111 101101010 10010111 110111011 01010111 110111010 01010101 110111010 01010101 111111010 11110001 110111110 11011101 110111010 10010011 110101010 11011101 110111010 110011001 110101110 11101101 010101010 11111101 110111110 10110111 101101110 111101110 101111110 10111101 101101010 10110101 010101010 10110101 011101110 10110111 101101110 11010101 011111110 10111101 111101010 10111101 111101010 11110111 0100001010 11110101 1101011010 11110111 01000110 11110101 010101110 11111101 111101110 11110101 111101110 11110101 110101010 11111100 111111010 111111001 010111110 11001101 010111010 10111101 011111010 10110001 101110010 10110101 011111110 110111101 111000010 11111011 111101010 01110101 111100010 100111101 110011010 01011111 011111110 01111111 011111010 11111111 011101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 283
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 115
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, to, of, your, and, he, you, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, some, is, or, from 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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