This is an analysis of the poem Don'T Tease The Lion that begins with:
If you saw a lion
Not within a cage,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddXd efgfceXe aedeahah giXidheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011010 10101 111111 11101 111010 101010 101111 111010 111110 111111 111010 010101 0101110 110111 1101110 010101 111010 110101 001010 101101 111110 00101 111010 111101 101010 01111 101110 11101 101110 11111 1101010 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Don'T Tease The Lion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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