This is an analysis of the poem Fortune's Treachery that begins with:
When Fortune's shield protects you, then beware --
Tomorrow, for your foot she sets a snare....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 0111111101 0111010111 1001010010 1100101100101011011110010001010001001000110011011010011001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 76 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Fortune's Treachery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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