This is an analysis of the poem Smile Fixed that begins with:
The one to fear...
Is not that one who speaks....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101 011111 010011 1010 11011 001010 101101 01000010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; one is repeated.
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- summary of Smile Fixed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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