This is an analysis of the poem The Crane & The Fox, A Fable that begins with:
In long gone years a fox and crane
Were bound in friendship's golden chain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeffeeff gghh ijjfXXa ddiikkee iigghhkkaagg iilliiiicceeffggXX ffdX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,4,7,8,12,18,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100111 01010101 100110111 1101111 11011111 01011111 111111010 110011010 01011101 01110101 010111010 110000110 01010111 010101001 010111110 110101010 11010101 01010101 111100101 11010101 11000101 11011101 01010101 110101010 101101110 01010101 11010010 10110101 100101001 01010011 11010101 11011101 11010101 110011111 11000011 100110110 110011010 01001101 11110101 10110101 11010101 110101010 110111010 01111101 01010101 01010101 1110101 11000101 11011111 01010101 11111100 110101010 11101110 11010111 11000101 11011101 0101101 11101010 10110101 11011010 011111110 111101 11111111 01110001 11011111 01110101 10010101 01010001 11011111 01010101 1111110100 100010101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, eat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase her connects the lines.
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- summary of The Crane & The Fox, A Fable;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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