This is an analysis of the poem Face Lift that begins with:

You bring me good news from the clinic,
Whipping off your silk scarf, exhibiting the tight white...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbbcda ebfdfXXe bXghgcXb ghXicicg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010010 1011110100011 10110011 11110110100 11010110110101 10111010010010 11011100110 1111 1111100 11101001111101 1001000101000100 11011001011 11101111111010 0100010110101 10111111011 11101 11111010 1101001000110 10111100010 11011010110110 111010101110010 1010111111010110 10001000110 110011 1111010010 11101110110 111110101 1100110101 10111100100101100 101101100011 10011111001 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; me, i, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Face Lift;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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