This is an analysis of the poem Badger that begins with:

The badger grunting on his woodland track
With shaggy hide and sharp nose scrowed with black... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddcccceebbeeccffbbgghheeiieejjffeebbjjccccffkkeeeecccceeff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010111 01011111001 1001010111 0111000111 0111111101 1101011001 0101011001 1011010111 0101010101 1111010101 11001010001 1011110110 1111010111 1111010001 1101010111 1011010101 1111110101 0111011101 0101110001 1011110101 110110111 1101111001 1111010101 11111101001 1101111111 1111110101 1101010111 1101001101 01010111011 11011100101 0111110101 0101110101 1101110111 1101111101 0101010001 1111011101 0111011101 0101110101 1101110111 1101010111 0101010101 0101110101 1101011101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 11011101001 1111011101 1111111111 1111110101 1111110111 1101110111 1101010111 1111110101 1111111111 1111010101 1110011101 1101011101 1101110101 1101110001 1111110101 1111010101 1101011101 1101011101 11010010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2897
  • Average number of words per stanza: 567
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, him, he, them are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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  • summary of Badger;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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