This is an analysis of the poem Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face that begins with:
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbb ccbb ddee XXcc ffAa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 11011101 10001001 11011101 01001101 01100111 11011001 11010111 11100101 00010111 01111001 01010111 01111110 11010100 11100101 11110001 11011111 01011111 11011101 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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