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

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  • Rhyme scheme: A bbbbcddcbeccfghXaagi A baggjjfXfXgbgXkkXfbaiXffglllefddccddccccgfaaffafffgcggefgbXffXbgjflldffbmmbbcfgeffffdd hcaaafaaccX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,1,86,11,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010 101101110 010001010 111111110 111110110 1100111110 110101010 101110010 100111110 101011110 101101011 11010011 10010111 111111010 010100110 010100110 110111110 110111110 010110010 011011010 101111011 10010 110101010 10101010 10101110 111001110 010100111 01100101 111001010 010111010 110111010 010111100 011100110 100101010 111101010 111110110 10110101 10010101 111111011 100101010 011111010 01011101 11011101 111101010 101111010 000111010 110100110 110101111 10111101 10010101 101111011 101110110 10110011 11110011 110111010 100111010 11110101 11011001 011101010 011101010 0011101 11111001 1111110100 110101010 010101110 111101110 101011010 110101010 101101110 100101110 111001010 1100001010 110101110 10111011 101110010 110111110 101111111 101101110 010101110 110100110 101001010 101101110 1011100110 010111100 101111010 110111110 110101110 110101110 110101011 011101111 110111010 10101110 111001010 000111010 111111110 110111010 111001110 010101110 010101110 010111010 1100001110 101101011 010110110 110011010 110111010 110101010 00111101 11110101 110111010 110110010 111101110 110101110 111110010 10101110 101111010 110101110 10110101 11111001 11011101 0101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 669
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 122
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; he, his, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, a, your, the are repeated.

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

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