This is an analysis of the poem That Face You Wear Looked Better that begins with:
What has happened to your world,
Girl? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbCDEFG AbXeaegXeXa AbCDEFG AbXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,7,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011 1 11111010 1110101 111011 11111 1111 1110011 1 111101011100 01101111 010111 111011 111110 01011 11011 1111010 101101 1110011 1 11111010 1110101 111011 11111 1111 1110011 1 1111110 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of That Face You Wear Looked Better;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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