This is an analysis of the poem A Fable that begins with:
Securely sunning in a forest glade,
A mild, well-meaning snake...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dddd efef XgXg X hghg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101000101 011101 0101010111 11001 110111 0101010101 1110111101 01001 0111110101 110001 1111010101 1101 010111 0101010100 0101110001 1101 0101011110 010101 1101100101 1101 1000 01000111 0100010 11010100 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; he is repeated.
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- summary of A Fable;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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