This is an analysis of the poem The Abbreviated Fox And His Sceptical Comrades that begins with:
A certain fox had a Grecian nose
And a beautiful tail. His friends... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabacdcd eacabeXe afaX XedXX XgbgfdXX aXXX Xcac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,4,5,8,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010110101 10100101 010100101 00100101 010110101 0111101 1110111101 1110111 111100101 0101001 111001001001 1101101 011110101 0110111 1011100101 11111001 010100101 1101101 11111 111 11111010 1011110101 1100101 111111101 1100101 110010101 0100101 110101001 1011111 1011111101 10100111 111010111 00101111 1010101101 00100101 111111101 1111101 01000001001 0100111 011111111 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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