This is an analysis of the poem Fight With A Bear that begins with:

The following appeared in Truth in the form of a prose tale of
considerable length. We have concentrated the essence...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbc ddeeffgXddhh iiddggjXddhh ddhhjj kkeehh bbddddccllhh ffmmaabbllhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,12,12,6,6,12,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100010100100110 010001111010010 1100011001000100 01001110010010 11001 11011011 01011101 01010011 11110101 01000101 1000111 10101101 11111101 10110111 11011101 0101101 1010101 11010101 00111001 11110101 10010111 10110011 1110101 1010101 00110101 11010101 000101011 11010101 01010101 011010101 0110101 01011101 10110101 11111111 11110101 11111010 11110110 10110101 01110101 11110011 01100111 101101010 011110110 111100001 11011101 11110101 11100101 11111110 110101010 01011101 1111001 1101101 1111101 11010101 11011001 11010101 11111101 110101101 10110001 11010101 01010001 11110111 011111011 110010101 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, and, him, they are repeated.

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  • summary of Fight With A Bear;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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