This is an analysis of the poem Three Faces that begins with:

I.--VENTIMIGLIA
The sky and sea glared hard and bright and blank:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbC cbc bcbC a deXE ede dedE X ebeB bebXebeB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,3,4,1,4,3,4,1,4,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110100 0111111111 10111011111 0111011101 0111 11110010111 1111110101 010100100101 1111010111 0101110111 1101110111 0111 1100 0101110111 01011110101 11010001011 0101 0111010111 01001011111 1100110111 0111111111 1101010111 1010110101 0101 110 1001111101 110011100111 11011101101 1001 1101111111 1111011111 1101110111 01011100101 1101010111 1101110101 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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