This is an analysis of the poem Heart Hunger that begins with:
THERE is no truth in faces, save in children:
They laugh and frown and weep from nature's keys; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc Xdaefg bbfbcca hdXggihecbeXbaiebc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110101010 1111110101 1111011111 0111010001 11010111010 1101011111 0101011101 1111010101 011111110100 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101 11100010100 110011110101 1100010101 01010101001 0101010101 1010010101 0101111111 111001100111 0111110101 1011010011 1101010111 0101111111 11001011111 1111010101 1101010101 11011110101 11110101001 1111010100 1110010101 110101011101 11011010101 010111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; in, and, for, she, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, o are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Heart Hunger;
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