This is an analysis of the poem Layered In Crust And Trusted that begins with:
I may appear to be layered in crust,
And trusted to mold to eventually rust....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXXb aXcXcc X DdX X DbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,1,3,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001001 110010010001 1100100001100 111111 11110001000 101111101 0010010101 1101111011001 1101110 1010100111 00111011101 101000101011 00101110011010001 111 1111 101110101 011101011 111 1111 111101 11011001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Layered In Crust And Trusted;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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