This is an analysis of the poem The Owl and the Fox that begins with:
THERE WAS an old Fox
That lived under the rocks...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcXbddecce abffgfffXhhXcc aabdibXdjaajXbiaai fkbllbhhcacc mfjddjjjX nnjdXjcbhhbdmdmhjbhjjX mcafhanfngfXccgjjghihX mgcgaggdhahmhbhjjjhkgkhhfk mhhhdhhhodoibbdacajjmbhbegeXagdeaedhdhccccdiiiifhhjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,18,12,9,22,22,26,52,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 111001 10100111 101010 11001 1111111 0111 00101 1010101 11001 11001 11001001 10101 11001 101101 011001 00101 10100101 11100 0101 1111010 1101 1111 1111 1111 11010010 11011 11001 1101110 11101 001011 111001001 011110 11011 1100111 110011 001001 001111111 10111 101001 011111 111001 111001 10111001 10110101 1011 101001011 01011 101001 101101001 1101 10111 1111101 1101 111001 1110101 110110 11001 1011011011 1101 111001 1011111111 101001 01111 1110111110 111010 111010 111101 10111 00101110 1111111 111101001 1101101 10101 111101 1101111 1111100101 11001001 111100101 1111101 11111 00111 1110111 10111 11101 110101001 1101110 011110 1101 1101101 111010 1111 11011001 110110 11011 01110110 1111 001101 11111010 10111 10111 10100111 111111 010111 1100111 1101011011 11101101 0101111101 111010110 10010 111 001101 10101 111001 11001 110110101 0111 001001 001101 10101 10111 00101 101001 00101 001111101111 111011111 1011101101 101110 1101 1101 111001 11101 11111 11101 11100 01110 0101 11011 01001 1111 10101 10111011001 101010 10101 111110 1101 111001 111001 110100101 11111 111001 111001 00101 111101111 111010011111 101110 101 10111 00101 110111001 1001 11001 101011 101001 01101 11011 11101 11001 11111 01111 11101 1111 111010 11011 11001 11111 11111 10111 1100101101 111011111 11111111 10111 001101 101010111 110110111 01110111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 495
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 186
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, sharp, and, their, you, ha, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of The Owl and the Fox;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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