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…
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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