This is an analysis of the poem Slick Tricksters that begins with:
Believing themselves to be equipped,
With a kind of wit that makes them slick......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXab bXXc XcXdd eeXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010010001 001011101 101011 10011 0111001 10110 0101110 011101 11111110 1110100101 01011 0101 101101 11000101 1111010110 111001 010 1111110 101011 1010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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.
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- summary of Slick Tricksters;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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