This is an analysis of the poem The Faceless Man that begins with:
I'm dead.
Officially I'm dead. Their hope is past....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cXddebbe ccffgghhaacX aaeeiieeccjj ccXbkk hkhhkk X cbcbccjaXXijijeX bXgbbbccjbbj cbbcaaffkk lglghhhhaffXhchX ccbbbebe ffmbmbjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,12,12,6,6,1,16,12,10,16,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01 0100011101 1111110111 11111111 1011110111 110101111100 110001 101111 111101 1011001 110001 111101 11111111 101010101 01001111 11000101 11111111 11011111 11111101 11010101 01010111 01111101 11110111 111111010 0111010001 1101011101 1111110101 0101011111 1111111101 11010011101 0101111101 1101010101 1101110001 1111001110 0011101001 1101010100 1111110101 1101101101 0111110110 1111110101 1111111111 111111111 1111110101 0101000111 1111000101 1101111001 1110010101 1111111111 111 0100011101 1111001011 1101001111 1111011001 1111111101 1111010101 10100110100101 1101001101 1111010100 11110101110 11110101001 1001111101 0110010101 0100010101 101011111101 11110101110 1001010011 1111011100 1101110111 1101110011 1101010111 1101111111 10100101101 1111110101 1111111111 1111010101 1111010111 1101111101 1011110111 1101101101 1111111101 1111110101 1111010111 0101110111 0101011001 1111011101 1101111101 1111110101 0111110101 1101101101 1111011111 1101001111 1111110101 1101011101 0101010111 1101110101 1111011101 1101110101 1100100101 111111101110 1111000101 1001010001 1011110111 1101011100 1101011101 0101110101 1101110101 0111110101 1111011101 1111111100 0111010011 0101010100 0110010101 0111010111 0111011101 1111111111 1111011101 11110010111 1011111111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 430
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 119
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i'm, dead, you, for, and, i, my, we, her, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, i, we, and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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