This is an analysis of the poem Faces Are Not Happy that begins with:
What is it about life to live,
In some atmospheres......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbXcXcdc AXbXXddab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001101 011000 1010110 0010010 01101010 11101010 111110011010 11010101111 11010011000101 10001101 011000 11101011000 001010001001001 101000110100101 010101010001 11100011010101 110110110011 1110111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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