This is an analysis of the poem No More Clichés that begins with:
Beautiful face
That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd eeb cabX XcX bXaXa bXedfXXag baag bgfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,4,3,5,9,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 1101010010001 111 10110111101 0101 101101011 11000101 11010101001 1101011001100 01010010 011010100 101111111 1101001 1111 010010000110 1100011 010100 01100 11110101 01000110 11010011 1010011001 0101111 11110 10101000101 10110011011 10100101 1110001111 1011000101 0111001010101 01100010111 011011 0111111100101 100010101 1011 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; to, their, that, battles, for, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, to, in, battles, and are repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase battles connects the lines.
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- summary of No More Clichés;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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