This is an analysis of the poem Trapped For Bait that begins with:
A well made fake it is,
To get love disguised....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABACB Abaa bcdX bXcb eFXdbEFEFEF ABACB bEFEFEF FEFXFEF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,11,5,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100 01101 11101 010100 1110010 011100 011001 11111101 1 0101010 1010111 1010101 0101 0101110 110101 111101010 10101 110101 0111 110101 00101 1 10101 0111 11 1111 11 11 011100 01101 11101 010100 1110010 1 10101 0111 11 1111 11 11 111 11 1111 111 11 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; trapped, for, bait are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words a, trapped at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bait is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bait at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Trapped For Bait;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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