This is an analysis of the poem Face To Face that begins with:
So busy they were...
Actively preventing others, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab ccXbdXdacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 10001010 010111001 1110100111110 0111100 110110001 001101 011110100 101 110111 11010101 01001111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Face To Face;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Lawrence S. Pertillar
- Analysis of So I Am Told
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- Analysis of How Did You Get Past Me
