This is an analysis of the poem At The Zoo that begins with:
There are lions and roaring tigers,
and enormous camels and things,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbCB XdXdXXCB XaXaaXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011010 10101011 1110010110 1011101 1010010100 10101001 111100100 1111001 1110110110 10100101 1110011010 1100101 1111010010 1010100 111100100 1111001 011010010 1101101 11110010 1101101 11011010 110101110 111100100 1111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word zoo at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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