This is an analysis of the poem The Made To Order Smile that begins with:
When a woman looks up at you with a twist about her eyes,
And her brows are half uplifted in a nicely feigned surprise ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXbb ccbb ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101011110010101 101111000010101 111110101111101 101010110010101 00110100011001 00101100010100 111111110111001 101011101010101 101101101110101 111000101010101 101111101010101 101011110010101 11101111010111 111100111111101 101011111110101 101100100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, and, us are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word smile at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Made To Order Smile;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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