This is an analysis of the poem If One Smiling Looks Out Of Place that begins with:
Why do you smile now all the time?
It looks out of place....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb aXXX a XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 01101 0100011 0100111110 110100010011100 110100101011010 101000010 111010110011 01101111011101 1 1111001101001 01101101 111011011010011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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