This is an analysis of the poem Into Plastic Surgery. Not Aluminum Siding that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdceef fgXhdXh deif cX iXX ajcjX eX i XX idjed XfXXfbg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,4,2,3,5,2,1,2,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 1110 1101100011011 100100101010 001101100011 1010101111101 100010 010 10101101 11110010010 011110101101 110 010101011 11010000100101 11110 1 00101010 1101001 101100100110 100001100101010 1101 100 10100 111 1 11 011110 10101 11 11101 10011 111110111110 11 10111001 1100 10111011101101 110010 11 0101011100101001 1 1 10110101 1010 00010100 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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; those is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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