This is an analysis of the poem Making The Lion For All It's Got -- A Ballad that begins with:
I came home and found a lion in my room...
[First draft of "The Lion for Real" CP 174-175]...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX Xabc aabXXd adXcdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010011 110110110111 01010100 001 111110 11010110010 01001 0101 111110 010010001 10011000 11001 010101001101 110100101 111001 01010001 111 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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; lion is repeated.
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