This is an analysis of the poem Figures that begins with:
I shuffle faces like cards
in spite of myself, and all...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcbdXXaXXcbXcbbXdXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 0101111 110101 11001 1111001 011101 11101 101011 11110 110101 101001 110111 01001 11111 111010 010011 00101 1001010 1111 111101 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Figures;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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