This is an analysis of the poem Her Tin Skin that begins with:
i want her tin skin. i want
her militant barbie breast,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaX bbXca ccXbc ddeaX baXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111 0100101 0101011 001001111 11100 11110 1001110 1100100 110111 00101010 011100 010101 1110 01011010 1001111 10111 110110 1010001 101101 0101101 1010010 110111 110111 01111 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, her, want, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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