This is an analysis of the poem Silent Letters that begins with:
Treacherous as trap door spiders,
they ambush children's innocence. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXba dXefXXX gXacXee bbgXXXa aaaXXcg bXfdXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110 11110100 1001110100010 1001010100 101101010 1010101 01001010111 0101110011 101101101100 100101111 011111 110111010100 01101101 0110100 10110011 110101 11011101 101100100 01101 11000101010 10101 11011001 10111101 11010101 1000100010 1110111 110111000 11010 1011010 10100101 111110 111111 11011 010011010100 010111 1000100101 0100110110 01001011101 01010011001 0111000100 0100001 010101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; as is repeated.
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- summary of Silent Letters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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