This is an analysis of the poem Introduction: The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts that begins with:

I call you bad, my little child,
Upon the title page, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede aeae XfXf gggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 010101 01010111 010111 01000101 010101 01100101 01000 11110101 110101 01010101 011001 11110101 111101 11110101 011101 11110001 110001 01010101 110111 11011101 111101 11010101 110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.

    The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Introduction: The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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