This is an analysis of On Carpaccio's Picture by Amy Lowell.

Swept, clean, and still, across the polished floor
From some unshuttered casement, hid from sight,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabbcXbc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111010101 011000100101 0101110101 1001011101 10010000101 1100110011 1101110101 0101010101 1111010001 0101010111 1001001001 0101110100 0111010111 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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