This is an analysis of the poem Sampson's Lion that begins with:
The lion that on Sampson roared,
And thirsted for his blood;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dada efef agag hfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 110101 01010011 110101 01011101 010101 11010001 100101 01011101 110011 11010101 110101 01110111 011101 11011111 011101 01010101 111101 11010101 011001 01011101 110111 11110110 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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