This is an analysis of the poem The Lion's Whelps that begins with:
There is scarlet on his forehead,
There are scars across his face,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbbcddbcefgeefhhe bicaiicggi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1110101 10101010101101 10110010 1010001 111010101110101 1111100011001 10101111 11101011 111010111110001 11101110 1111111 1111110000101101 0111010 11101001 0010100100010101 111011101110101 0010111 1010111 101010101111101 10101011 1110111 1110110000101101 11101010 1110111 101010101110101 101111101110101 11101010 11111010 101011111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 671
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; to, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, when, we, twice are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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