This is an analysis of the poem The Smile that begins with:
There is a Smile of Love
And there is a Smile of Deceit ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bdcd XdXd aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 11001001 1100101 011111 1100101 11001001 1100101 11100101 10100111 10100111 11111011 1101101 1010101 0101110 110101 101101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; there, smile, of, and, frown are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Smile;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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