This is an analysis of the poem Swindle that begins with:
A request to have a door,
On hinges installed......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0010101 11001 001010 1110100 101110 1111 1101001 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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 Swindle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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