This is an analysis of the poem Elaborate Masks that begins with:
As a child,
I was never one...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXadeaf XedbcfbXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 11101 011101 0111 110001 1101100 0011010 101100010 010 11001 110 111111 11 101110110 10 1001 101110111 1101001 00100101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
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- summary of Elaborate Masks;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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