This is an analysis of the poem Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf that begins with:

As soon as Wolf began to feel
That he would like a decent meal,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXccddeeaXXX XbcX ffddbb ccXXCXcXCccXb XXX eddXX ffcc ccccdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,4,6,13,3,5,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 11110101 11111111 11010011 01110101 1111111 11001101 110011111 11110101 11010111 11001111 1111101 11011001 11110101 110101010 110101010 11000101 111100111 11011101 11010001 11011111 01110101 11010111 11111101 11011101 11010111 01010101 11111111 11111110 10100111 0101 11111110 1101101 10100111 0101 11110011 110100101 01001100 110011101 110110111 110101011 101111 1111 1101 01111111 11110111 010011100 011111110 110100010 110101001 11111111 01110001 11011101 11011101 11010101 11101111 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, he, in, she, you, ', bang are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Little Red Riding Hood And The Wolf;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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