This is an analysis of the poem Sur-Prize that begins with:
Innocent pen, innocent ink [and Muse]
On an innocent page scribbles abuse--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccaabbddddeeXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001100111 1110011001 1010111 10100101 011010101 10111011 110101 1011001 1010101 110110101 1011101001 110101 100100111 111110111 1111100111 111111111 11110110111 11111101010010 0100100010010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; innocent is repeated.
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- summary of Sur-Prize;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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