This is an analysis of the poem The Trap that begins with:
She was taught desire in the street,
Not at the angels' feet. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccaaXdeeccff bbgghhggffiijjaaaagg FF cckkffbbddkkffff FFXaaffccbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,20,2,16,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010001 110101 1001111 00100101 01011001 100101 111101 1100101 1111101 111110 0110101100 1101101 011111 11100111 011111 1011101 10100101 1110011 1111110 101001 0110101 10100101 1101011 00100111 0101111 0111011 0111001 1001111 0100111 1100101 111111 1100101 1101101 0100101 1100101 0100111 1100101 110100 0100111 11100101 1101101 01001011 1100101 1101111 101101 11111001 1011001 1101101 0100100 101101 0101101 110111 0111000 1110101 1001001 1110101 0100111 11100101 1101001 1110111 0100111 0110101 0100101 1110111 01111001 1100101 0101101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less 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; she, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Trap;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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