This is an analysis of the poem Now The Hungry Lion Roars that begins with:

From "A Midsummer-Night's Dream," Act V. Scene 2
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabXXcdcdededbfbfgghh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101101101111 11 1010101 1011001 10101010 1010110 1010111 1011101 1011101 0010001 1000101 1011101 10011101 0010101 1110111 10101001 0010001 10010101 1110101 1010101 1110101 01010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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