This is an analysis of the poem Charade that begins with:

Two words there 'are, both short, of beauty rare,
Whose sounds our lips so often love to frame,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXdcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111110101 1111110101 1101010101 0111010111 1101011111 1101010001 1011010111 0101010101 1101010111 1011110011 1101011110 1011111101 01010111010 1011000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; i is repeated.

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  • summary of Charade;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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