This is an analysis of the poem The Face I Carry With Me—last that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abac Xdef ecacXedbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01110011 111101 01111001 110101 1100010 111101 01011101 010100 11010101 010101 1100101001 111101 11111111 010101 11110101 010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; and is repeated.

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

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