This is an analysis of the poem How Jack Made The Giants Uncommonly Sore that begins with:

Of all the ill-fated
Boys ever created... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbabbccXc ddebbeffaXXXX fXghhXgghiiih ddfddfjjjkkkj iiiffijjihhhi flfmlm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,13,13,13,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010110 110010 11101001 1010010 010010 11001111 001111 101111 01001001 10100100 10010010100 1 111110 110010 11010011 1010010 010010 1000101 11111 001001 11001101 1100101 100100 111100 1 111010 011010 11001001 110010 010110 01011001 11101 111101 11001111 00100100 110100 110100 1 1011110 111010 01101001 110110 011110 11011001 001001 001001 11001111 10100100 110100 100100 1 110110 111110 01101001 100010 010010 11101011 111011 101001 001011011 1100100 1011000 111100 1 10001011001 01101101101 1 1110010010010 11101101101 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 303
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; of, them are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, of are repeated).

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  • summary of How Jack Made The Giants Uncommonly Sore;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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