This is an analysis of the poem The Diplomatic Platypus that begins with:
I had a duck-billed platypus when I was up at Trinity,
With whom I soon discovered a remarkable affinity....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddceXaffgghhXXXeXdhXiXdXjjdbiXkkbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110111111100 0111010001000100 110101001111010 1111101010101010 1101010011000100 1101001001000100 110111000111110 111101011101110 110101010101100 1010011110100110 1101111101000100 1111011001100100 1100010111001000 1100010011001100 0100010101000101 1101010111011101 0100010101110100 1101010111000100 110111001001110 1101010111110110 111101010110100 110001010101100 1111110000100100 1101010101110100 110101010100100 1101011101010100 10100010101011101 11100010001000101 110101000101010 011111000100100 000101010101010 1010101001100010 0101010101010111 0101011001001111 10101010000101010 010101000101010 1110111100111010 010101011001010 1101110011011100 1101010101010100 110101001101010 0010101000100010 110001011100110 010101001101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2498
- Average number of words per stanza: 425
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, he, to, our, never, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines to, him are repeated).
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- summary of The Diplomatic Platypus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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