This is an analysis of the poem Out From Behind His Mask that begins with:
OUT from behind this bending, rough-cut Mask,
(All straighter, liker Masks rejected--this preferr'd)... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdbefgeXgXgXXXfa cXXbgXXfdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001010111 110101010001 01010001010111011 10111 10010101110 01001010101 0101100101 01010101 011001010011000 101 1001000001 0100100011111110010 11 010100010111010101 1001010010111 110011001010101 011111010100010 101 01101101 010001100111 01111101010 10110001011101100 10 110101010001 10001011101110011 11011111011111010 101001011110011 011111110100001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 764
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; this, for, in, to, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word this is repeated.
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