This is an analysis of the poem Dough Face that begins with:

Made a face of biscuit-dough,
Which our black cook gave me once;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaX ccXX cdcd eefX gege hhXX dXdX aXgX fcfc ggcc XbXb dXii gfgf XbaX ecec bbfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1111111 1011111 111100101 1110101 1011101 1010111 1111011 1110101 1110111 1111101 1010111 1010101 0110111 111101 1110111 0110111 1010111 1111101 1110111 1011111 1001101 1111111 1010101 1111101 1110001 1111011 1111101 1111101 1111111 1011101 1111100 1111110 1111101 1010111 0011101 1110101 1010001 1110101 1011111 1010101 0111101 1001111 1010001 1110100 1111100 1010001 1011111 1011111 0010111 1111001 1011111 11111000 1011111 0011111 1111111 1010101 1110101 1000111 0010101 11100111 1010111 1111111 10111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word and 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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