This is an analysis of the poem Faces In The Street that begins with:
They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone
That want is here a stranger, and that misery's unknown; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbb ccbbabb ddbbabb bbbbebb aabbfbb ddbbbbb ffXbabb ggXbbbb ccbbgbb eebbdbb cXbbcbb eebbabb hhbbXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011110010101 11010101110001 11010101010101 11010100010001 101101 0010101 111010100110001 11110100011111 01011101010111 11011100011111 01010101110101 101101 0010101 111010100010001 010010101011001 01110101010101 01010101010101 11010101010001 100100 0010101 111010100110001 010101011101001 01110100010101 11010101010111 01010100010001 1010101 1010101 111010100010001 11010101010101 11011101010001 11110111010001 10010101010101 101101 0010101 111110100111001 110101101110101 11010101010101 11011101010001 01110101010001 101101 0010101 111010101010001 111111001011101 11011101010111 01110101011110 01011101010001 101101 1011101 01010100110001 11010111111101 10011101010111 11011101011110 11010101011101 101101 1010111 01011101110001 11010100010101 01110100010001 11011111110101 11010101010001 0111011 1011111 001011101010101 11010101011101 11010101010111 11011100010111 11010110110001 101101 10101001 101110101011001 111110100111101 111001010101010 11011101100101 10010101010101 101101 0011101 11110101110101 11010101110111 01011100011101 11011101010101 11010101010001 101101 00111001 101110100010001 11010101110101 01011101010111 11010101110101 10110101010001 01010101 110111 01110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; drifting, and, in, of, things are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, flitting are repeated.
The author used the same words and, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word street at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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