This is an analysis of The Tiger by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

In the still jungle of the senses lay
A tiger soundly sleeping, till one day…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bXb bbb ccc ddd
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,
  • Metre: 0011000101 0101010111 01110100111 1111110101 11011001100 01110101001 1101010111 01010010111 0101010101 11010010101 0111011011 1111001111 1101010111 1110011101 01001001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 15

Anaphora

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