This is an analysis of the poem Faces that begins with:
PEOPLE that I meet and pass
In the city's broken roar,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXBcbcbabXdBd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 0010101 1011111 1110101 1111111 0010011 1011111 0111101 1010011 10011010 1111101 010001010 1000101 1001100 0010011 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Faces;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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