This is an analysis of the poem Lips Shut. Seen In Rome that begins with:
In Rome within the Sistine Chapel,
Covered over with Christian signs,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX Xbbb aXXXX X bX XXXX XXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,1,2,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100110 10100101 100101010 1110101 10010100 1001010 01101100 10110010 0011000100 01011100 11001000 1000101 11 01001 1110 111 1011110 10101 101100 1111110 11001 10100011 111101110 1101110 111001 11101100 0100100 1011101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, nez are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words noses, nez are repeated.
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