This is an analysis of the poem The Trap that begins with:
I am not well civilized, really alien here: trust me not.
I can understand the guns and the airplanes,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abX cbX aXX cXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101101001111 11101011010 0100100111 110111010001010 011101010 101110010 11000111011001111 110100101 10100101100 0100111010001010 1010111001 001000100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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