This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Jungle that begins with:
I wonder what tumult is racking the silence of this jungle
That breeds a hundred songs of joy and sorrow in the heart;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX cbXXb XdXadec Adc AaeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,7,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100100100010 11010101110001 11011010101010 1101010011 101010110 01011101 100101 1110100101 1000101 1111010100100 1101000101 100110110 0101110010 11010101011 11110001011 101010101 11010 01101011 0010010011001111 11010 01010100100 11011001001 101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, like are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Song Of The Jungle;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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