This is an analysis of the poem Your Body Was Puzzling that begins with:
Your body was puzzling, like a half-made figure
Till the final shaping of your voice came...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabbaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100101110 1010100111 1100100111 1100111 1101110010 11011010001 11111010010010 0001010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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More information about poems by Maxwell Bodenheim
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- Analysis of Your Mind Is A Little, Clandestine Pastel
