This is an analysis of the poem Monologue Of A Polar Fox On An Alaskan Fur Farm that begins with:
I am a blue fox on a gray farm
Condemned to slaughter by my color...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd cedb fgbh ffgi hjXX XXgk lmln mmlm kXmd bomb Xlma nXcm cggg iigd akme bjol lbce lhlX bajj Xm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011 010101110 01010101 111100101 11110111 01110110110 1001001001 110110010 111101011 10101000110 1000110110010 1110100010 0101001011 101010101 110101111 010010101 1100110 1111101 11001011110 11111001 1101010101 111011100 01010010111 0010100100 1010100111 0110101101 1010110001 101000101 0101010101 11100010001 1100010111 0011110 1111110 101111111 10101011101 10110101 110110101110 1110111 010111111 1011000010010 1101001011 11011101 11111111 0100100011110 1110000101101 10111011111 1111110101 10111101 1110110110 11000111 1110101010 11110000101 01010110101 01011110001 10100111 111010101 111101011 110101101 111100101 010100100010 11011101110 01101000101 110101011 10101010101 11101010 11111010 11110111110 011001110010 1001010001 10101011110 00100010111 10101000100000 1110011110 1111001001111 011110011 01111011 010111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 78
- 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, i, cage, and, in, lost, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, in, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dispair, me are repeated).
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