This is an analysis of the poem Pastel: Masks And Faces that begins with:
The light of our cigarettes
Went and came in the gloom:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb Xcc Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101101 111001 01100101 111001 100101 10110111 1110101 101101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 87
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, dark, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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