This is an analysis of the poem Stuffed Shirts Smother that begins with:
Values fixed,
In rusted steel...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbX cdXdbc XeXeaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 0101 1101110 111010 01011010 01000101 11110 01101 110100 01010 1111 11101 0111001 1110 1101001 01001 11101 0101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Stuffed Shirts Smother;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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