This is an analysis of the poem To A Silent Girl that begins with:
When the sklll'd fashioner of female faces
Designed your mask, he wrought with cunning fist,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba caac addaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110001110 0111110101 1101010001 11110011100 0111010101 1101010101 1101010001 0101110101 1111011111 1100111101 1011010101 0111010101 0100011101 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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- summary of To A Silent Girl;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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