This is an analysis of the poem Why The Jackass Laughs that begins with:
The Boastful Crow and the Laughing Jack
Were telling tales of the outer back: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdde ebbffggcc ccXacX eegXbXff ddggeecX bbdXeXXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,6,8,8,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010110101 010100101 1010100111 1010110111 1000100111 1111010111 10000100111 011110111 10110111 101111111 100110101 1010110101 1100110110 0011110111 1101100101 110101111 1111111111 001110010101 011100111 111100111 1111111010 1011101010101 10010111111 00101111010 10101101111 110101111 0111111011 11101111010 11100111001 10111111110 110111011 0011111101 1000110111 111101101 100100111 100101111 1110111101 11101101010 1010110111 1111011010 1011110101 1110101101 010100111 11001111110 10111011011 1101111000 1111000101 1010111111 110011111 011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, of, could, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word crow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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