This is an analysis of the poem We Wear The Mask that begins with:
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabba XabCXaabbaC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11011111 01111111 01110101 01110111 110100100 11010100 01011111 11010111 1101 11111111 01010101 11110101 01111101 11011101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mask at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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