This is an analysis of the poem The Face that begins with:
There is a face I know too well,
A face I dread to see, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX bcXc abbb ccXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 011101 11001100 010100 00010111 010101 11011101 110101 01010101 010101 11010101 110101 11000111 110101 11111101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, so are repeated.
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- summary of The Face;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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