This is an analysis of the poem The Human Face that begins with:

I. Soon
Of all the springtimes of the world ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcXc deec fgfa fhfff i bff jjh bf gkjfe fXflg g gbb kbe mga g agcncaamga m ggff affb k hhcb bgok m hfga nnc XgfX hbab bgbg nhbkb n gfdEfflE fffE cebE gfXE fbpE affE agaE feXE gfoE fffE bbfE deiE nfXE jgmE lfbE fggE magE cboE opnE badXn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,5,1,3,3,2,5,5,1,3,3,3,1,10,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,3,4,4,4,5,1,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 010100001 0100100 01011010 0010001 11011 101001 1110101 101011 10111 11111 11101100 1111111 1110010 11011111 111010010 0101001 101010110 10101 11101110 01010101 110110011 11101011 1111001 101001 111101 111101 000100100 0101001 111101 0011010 0101001 10010001 0111010 001010100 10100101 1001010 1111010 111010 001101 01011001 1111 110101 10011 10010010 100101 101101 110 11101 110 110 111110 1000101 11 0101010 1010 01110 011101 111010010 1011110 101100 011111 111011 01111001 110101 110110 1011101 101 101011111 11110101 11001010111 010011001 01110 010011111 10111 100101 101010 0110011 10011 1111 00100101 111011000 11111000 010110101 110101 10100001 101110 010110 1101011 10010111 10010010 0101 0111 011001 10011001 00101 11010100 1010011 11011101 11010011 111010101 1100 11111 111101 101101 1111 110110 1101010 111011 1111 1010100 10100100 10101 1111 10101010 101101 10100111 1111 101001 101101 1010100 1111 1011111 101101 1010101 1111 10110010 10101 1101011 1111 1100101 101101 100110 1111 10101 101001 10111100 1111 101001 101001 101001 1111 100111 10111 10101010 1111 10110010 101101 11101010 1111 101101 00101011 1111101 1111 1111110 10111 10101 1111 1011011 1001010 1010110 1111 1101001 101011 1100111 1111 101010010 10101 10110 1111 110110 110110 10101100 1111 110011 110101 10101 1111 1011 1101 1110100 1111 11010011 1011101 111011 01111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 186
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, as, its, my, sons, me, and, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, look, as, my, its, under, the, and, on are repeated.

    The author used the same words as, on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines silence, sons, me, pages are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word name at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Human Face;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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