This is an analysis of the poem To Trap Unsuspecting Flies that begins with:
People only listen,
When their ears are prepared to hear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXab cacXb bXXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101010 11110101 111110001 101100110 011010000110 1001 11110 1011 0111101 10101 11 1 1001110100 1010100100 1000101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of To Trap Unsuspecting Flies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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