This is an analysis of the poem Cut While Shaving that begins with:
It's never quite right, he said, the way people look,
the way the music sounds, the way the words are...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcddceXfbdXg bg efd gXXg gd X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,2,3,4,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111101101 01010101011 10 010111110111 1101111011 110111 111011 1110101 1111 110010 111100 010010 010001101 0111 010111 11 11101 10 11010010 01100110101 1 101 01101 10110110 01 1110111 000 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; way, we, all, it, i, something are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the, it's are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines right is repeated).
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