This is an analysis of the poem Your Cheeks Are Spent Diminuendos that begins with:

Your cheeks are spent diminuendos
Sheering into the rose-veiled silence of your lips....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaabXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111000 100001110011 111100100 1001001011 1101001001 10010101 011111 1101001011 100100111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • 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 is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Your Cheeks Are Spent Diminuendos;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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