This is an analysis of the poem Lip-Stick Liz that begins with:
Oh Lip-Stick Liz was in the biz, That's the oldest known in history;
She had a lot of fancy rags, Of her form she made no myst'ry....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb bbbb ccbb aXbb XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001101010100 1101010100111110 110101010111010 1110101011101010 1111110111101110 11111001110111110 11111111110111010 111100011111101110 1111110111110010 1101001011111010 11101111011101010 101111010111101010 1111100111111110 1111010011111111100 111001001110101010 110010001111111010 10 11111010100 001001101101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, she, and, him, saw, them, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Lip-Stick Liz;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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