This is an analysis of the poem Removing The Grease Paint that begins with:
Removing the grease paint,
From the face of any clown......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011 0010101 10100111101 11 1010011110 0101010 0010100010 11100101 101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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