This is an analysis of the poem The Face Of A Kept Selfishness that begins with:
The face of a kept selfishness,
Has many colors....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcbcaXc AcAbdebdc dXb X e XdX ab XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,3,1,1,3,2,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001100 11010 00101010100 0111111 1001 0101010101 001001 101001110101 1101110111 01001100 1111010011001 01001100 110011110 1010010011010 10100101001 10101101111 0100110011001 11010101001001 1001110010001 1110101110 100111110111 11111010 111 1 11010010 101100100111 111101 1101111111 1100 1110101110101 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, those are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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