This is an analysis of the poem The Three Foxes that begins with:
Once upon a time there were three little foxes
Who didn’t wear stockings, and they didn’t wear sockses,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaa AXXX XXXX aXXX aaAXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011011010 11110111110 111110001110 111110001110 110010011010 11111111110 111011110110 1111100100010 11110001110 111110001110 11110111110 11110111110 11001111110 1110011110 11110011110 111111111110 111110011010 11110001110 110010011010 11111111110 111110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, caught, three, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Three Foxes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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