This is an analysis of the poem What The Wolf Really Said To Little Red Riding-Hood that begins with:
Wondering maiden, so puzzled and fair,
Why dost thou murmur and ponder and stare?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbb ccddaa ddeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001011011 1111011011 1111111011 1001001011 1001011001 1111011111 1111011111 1111001001 1011001101 1011011001 1111011101 1001001111 1011011001 1111111111 1111001011 1011111011 1111001101 0111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, why, when, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words only, why are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word dear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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