This is an analysis of the poem The Wolf And The Lamb that begins with:

She had hair gold as her father's corn;
She tripped and sung,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdebebcfcFcacacccc gagachchididcacaXjXjcfcF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110101 1111 10010111 1111 110100111 1111 11011101 1111 111110001 11101 011110111 101001 111110101 10111 101011101 1111 111100111 10101 0011110111 00101 110100111 1111 11101101 1111 110110111 0101 0011110101 0101 110011101 10101 01011101 1101 110110101 11101 100101001 1101 00110110101 1101 001111101 1101 11110110 1101 001110100 0101 1110100101 11101 11111101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 715
  • Average number of words per stanza: 141
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; his is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.

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  • summary of The Wolf And The Lamb;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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