This is an analysis of the poem I Don'T Wear Those Masks that begins with:

I'm not in it for the fashion.
Or to shake my 'booty' to the music....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Ab cca XXd ebfXf AX XedXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,5,2,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001010 1011100010 1101111 001 110010 1100100110 110111 10101101 001000110111 010101 10111100111 11 11111 01001010 1010010101 11101 011000110 11011001010 1010011001 1011001 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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  • summary of I Don'T Wear Those Masks;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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