This is an analysis of the poem The Wrinkled Grimaces Of Eastern Skies that begins with:
The wrinkled grimaces of eastern skies
Are caught on the Chinese mirrors of your eyes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXaXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101000101 11100110011 1110101 11001110 101011000101 1111010001 1010110001001 1111001011 1100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; your, of are repeated.
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