This is an analysis of the poem Now Get Out Of My Face that begins with:
Mirror mirror on the wall,
Am I still the gorgeous one of all? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa X XXX XXXbXX X X b XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,3,6,1,1,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 111010101 101010 1 110 11100101 11111001 10101 01101 1111101 001110010 0111 1 10100111 010101 111011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 51
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; mirror, to, clear, it's are repeated.
The author used the same word mirror at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Now Get Out Of My Face;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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