This is an analysis of the poem The Keys that begins with:
Broken ivories
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc DefDXXgXhXf fgeaiidX jXgikga Xgegagafkl giifXichc ligfkmfffhal lgXcicgfmicbfcfjc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,8,7,10,9,12,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100 10 01010 001 111 001010 0101 111 1010101 11100010 01011 0101 1111 01010 11101 011001 111101 101001010 1010 101100 11 1000101 011 11101 111 10010 101 000100 01 1110 111 010 110 11 011100 0011 0110 1101011 001 11101 11001 01001 11101 11001 01 11010 111 11110 10101 10111 0010 1010 01110 010101 01 0101 11 1100100 01 10010 1001101 11 111 10101 010001 1111 001 1111 001 111 11000100 100101 10100010 0101 10101 101001 01010 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Keys;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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