This is an analysis of the poem The Fox that begins with:
The shepherd on his journey heard when nigh
His dog among the bushes barking high;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggXaabbbbaaaaccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010111 0101010101 0101110101 1101011111 0101111110 1011011101 1101010111 0111110111 0101110111 1101011101 1111000101 0111000101 1101110001 1111110101 1100010101 0101010001 0101110101 0111110001 01010111001 0101111111 0101010001 1101110101 1111011101 1101010111 0101011101 1101011100 1101110101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 120
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, he are repeated.
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- summary of The Fox;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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