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.
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