This is an analysis of the poem The Jungle Husband that begins with:

Dearest Evelyn, I often think of you
Out with the guns in the jungle stew...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccXXXddee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10100110101 100100101 101110000 1101001111111001 010010111 111100010011 011111001011 000100011 1111 1001101110 01111001010 11010100101 001101001001 0101110100010011011 11111101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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