This is an analysis of the poem Mask that begins with:
Fling your red scarf faster and faster, dancer.
It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves, masses of green....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011010 00101011010111001 11110010101010 01110000101010010 100100101010101001 111100101011 1011110 10101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Mask;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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