This is an analysis of the poem Skin Stealer that begins with:
This evening I unzipped my skin
And carefully unscrewed my head, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdabdeedXdaaddaddca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 110010011 01011111 11011111 11110111 110110 11101 11101 110101 11011 11101 0010101 1011101 110111 10010 11001 11001001 10111111 111111 11011 01101 1011 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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