This is an analysis of the poem Jerome that begins with:
Each day brings its toad, each night its dragon.
Der heilige Hieronymus--his lion is at the zoo--...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdb aaeacb cdabca bXdcaX dfXffa ecggcXXae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111010 11010000100101 10101011101 11001011101 1011011010 1011010101 1000100111 00101110101 10010100110 01111111110 11001010111 11111110101 1101110001 01010001101 0010010100010 01110111110 011000101000 110011100010 10101111111 10111100010101 111101010101 0110010110010 1101111010 11100110011 0101110111 0011010111 0001010010 0101001111 1010111110001 001101110101 11111011101 1111010111 01011101010 101100111100 00101110101 001010111 0111010100010 10101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; to, he, it, his, night are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of Jerome;
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