This is an analysis of the poem Wrinkles that begins with:
For Naomi Lazard
Sometimes I can't wait until I look like Nadezhda Mandelstam....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a Xa Aaaab ccbca cdcecXabc faeXcc AagaX cda Xefbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,5,5,9,6,5,3,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001 10000111011111001000 01001 11110 011110110 01010 011110110 01010 111110 011110101110 01010 011110101110 01010 1110110 1010010 1110110 1110010 011110 0100 11001011010 11010 11001010 11101101 01010101010 1001001001 0101000 110101010 1100 11110 011110110 01010 011110110 01010 11110 0101010 111 0111 1111010 110101010101 01010 10
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; i, their, wrinkles, tired are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tired, wrinkles are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lazard at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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