This is an analysis of the poem Faces that begins with:
SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road--lo! such
faces!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdbXebdfdXggXdhih jbk fj gck Xc lm ke jlmdgblk Xe lf eX eal mb bdX cnchcbao bib bpiXb ccpe Xo fXb Xlc ddgmlb gX pbhn lphm gfl dX gXk Xmmg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,3,2,3,2,2,2,8,2,2,2,3,2,3,8,3,5,4,2,3,3,6,2,4,4,3,2,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000101100101111 10 10010010101001000 01000100101110100100 1 0100100100110010010 11011011 010010110110101 10100101100 01010010100101 01010110010100101 011 01010010001010100100 1010 0101100101010 011001010101011 01010001101101 0110111010 010110110011100 10 100010111001010 10110110 1101011111001 1101110100101101 1010 0101010001101 1101101001010 11110101101001 010011101101 110111101001 010011110101 0101100101111 000101010101011110 11001110010111 010110100101110010 1 01101010011111 10111 01101001111010 1 01110011000111 1011 01010110111 10011001001110 011001001001 10101111 111101010110011 1 100110111101101 10001 111011 1111010011 11101011011010 1111111001010010 11 10100110001 110100111100100111 0010 1111110101111 11001011011110 011010100010100 11110100111010 11110111011011001 10111 0101011010 1101101110111010 10 100101101101011110 10 110110111101010100 11 1101001 010011 00010101100111001 01010110110 0100101010011010 11011010100101 11101001001 1011110101111111 110 0110010011100100 1111010110111 1101010111101 1101011001 00011111 110010101101010 1111001110110101 111111111111011 110100101101 101011011011110 011001001010 11110101 111001001110 0111001011010 01110101011010110 100 1101100111001 11101001011 111010100111010 1 01010 111001010101011 100101 1101111001010011 0111101111 0101001110 01110110110100 010101 00100100001 010011010010111110 1 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; of, face, and, faces, this, its, knew, i, to, me, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words faces, the, a, some, i, and, this, it, her are repeated.
The author used the same words sauntering, this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase faces connects the lines.
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- summary of Faces;
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