This is an analysis of the poem You Masks Of The Masquerade that begins with:
You masks of the masquerade,
pass, you are not she,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXa cddc cXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 11111 1111010100 1011101 11001010110 111110011 0011110101 1011110 11010001010 1000110110 0111010101 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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