This is an analysis of the poem The Toucan that begins with:
Tell me who can
Catch a toucan?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa aXa aXa XXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1010 11 1111 1010 11 11011 110010 11 1111 101010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 47
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; can is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines can is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word can at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Toucan;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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