This is an analysis of the poem The Epic Of The Lion that begins with:
A Lion in his jaws caught up a child--
Not harming it--and to the woodland, wild...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaccaad eXeeddfXggeeeeehhiia aXgjjXkccggeeddaaaabbeehhbXjccllkkeecXkXeeXbmmek eennbbgiiffddaaXefX fhhXXiieece kkaakkaXaaaammeeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,48,19,11,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100011101 1100100111 0101111101 0111110101 0101010111 0111011101 1101010001 1111100111 0111010111 0101011011 0110011101 110101 1101 1111010101 1111111101 0111011111 011100110010 11010101110 1101010101 1111110010 1011011101 0101111111 1001010101 1001011110 1011110101 10010010111 1001010101 0101011101 0101011101 0101011111 0101010101 0100010101 1111111101 1111110111 1001010101 1001001111 1101011001 11000101001 0111010101 1111110111 1001011001 0110010101 1011010111 1011011111 1100011101 1111000111 1001000101 1111010001 1111111011 1101110101 0101010111 1001010101 11010001101 0101110101 1111010111001 1001010101 1101011101 1101011101 0101011111 11001011101 1001110101 0111101101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110111 1111110111 1011011101 1001011111 0110111101 1111101101 1100011101 1101010110 1011010111 1011010101 011101100 0101101111 1001010101 0101010011 1100011111 11 11011111 0100111101 0100011001 1001000111 0111110101 1101011101 01001111011 1100011101 1111011100 1011011100 1011011101 1101010101 0111010101 1101110101 1111110101 0111011010 1101110111 0101011101 11010 00101 1111010111 010101001001 10010110100 1011110100 111101111010 01010111110 0101010101 1111010111 1001010111 01110011 11 1001111110 0101110101 0101010101 1001011101 1100110111 1111010101 1111011000 1101110001 1101110101 1111111111 1110011111 1101110011 1010010111 1101110011 1101010101 1101011100 10111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 923
- Average number of words per stanza: 169
- Amount of lines: 128
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, in, he, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Epic Of The Lion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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