This is an analysis of the poem Spiders that begins with:
Is the spider a monster in miniature?
His web is a cruel stair, to be sure,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcac bddcXXbcdec fcefdegeXhXhcXddXd bdagXgXafcgiXbdciaifi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,11,18,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00100100101 0100101001 011001001 010011001 01011001101 00111101101 111110101001 010 10010010101011 111101010111 100110100 0010000101011000 0110101100011101 0010011011 1000101100011 10010011110100 1101 101111110011 01 11011101010 1000111100101 110100100100101 0100 110111100 11011010011111 1010110110 011011011011001 0111010111 01 01001010010 10110000101100 010110110010101 01101001101 0101001100101000 1001 1101001111100101 1100110100 110010100110101 1010100101 01001001011 011110111101 011111001101 111110110111 01 101101011010 101110100110101 10 11010101111001 1100101 0101110101001 1010 10110100101010 011010101111101 0100100101010 11011011111011 11100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, of, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Spiders;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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