This is an analysis of the poem Surfaced Ingenuities that begins with:
Shallow tricks played,
Had been the acts of children....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XababXcXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011 1001010 0110111 00101010 1001 1001100 0100001 101101010 1100100101 101101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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- summary of Surfaced Ingenuities;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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