This is an analysis of the poem Faces that begins with:
A late snow beats
With cold white fists upon the tenements - ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXb ccaabdeXa bbbbeffagaahXc fadgfbXi bXehhiXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,9,14,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 0111010100 100101110 11110 10100111 1101011 101 1101111 01001 01001101 101101 10100 01010100 1001101 1010 1001011 11100110010 10101101 10010100 011010 101001011010 0101 101110011 10111 10111000010 10110010 101 110101 10 101010101010 101001 110101 110110010 01001010 01100 1111 1001001 1100101 1100100 1010111 001010 101110101 10000 1111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 45
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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