This is an analysis of the poem When The Fox Dies, His Skin Counts that begins with:

WE young people in the shade
Sat one sultry day;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bX b c XX X a aX a b cX c d eX e c fdXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,2,1,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001 11101 101110010 01101 1101111 10101 1010101 1110100 1110101 00101 1110100 10101 1001101 00101 1000101 11101 1011111 111110 1011101 101010 1110101 10101 1010101 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 34
  • Average number of words per stanza: 7
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; my is repeated.

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  • summary of When The Fox Dies, His Skin Counts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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