This is an analysis of the poem How We Were Introduced that begins with:
—for perfidious protectors
I was playing in the street ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcde bbfb dXae bgdX hidh Xagb caga XXgj jhdk iaiaXffakfaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100010 1110001 11101001 1111101 100101011 111001001010 10111010 11111010 011101010 111101 1101100 11011 0001010001 11110101 11010 110101 1010 1101010010 1111 010010011101 1101001 10101 100110 10010 1011 1110101 111100010 10100100 1010101 11111 1101 110100100100 101010 1101010 010110 10101 11001 101110 0110 0111111 111111 111101 11101 10011 10101 1110 0111 101101011 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of How We Were Introduced;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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