This is an analysis of the poem Moscow Zoo that begins with:
We saw the mass grave at the Moscow Zoo.
A sullen man dug up a human skull...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeXeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101110111 0101110101 1101110001 1101000101 0111000101 1101110101 0101110001 1101011101 0100011101 1110110101 0101110100 1101010101 1101010101 0101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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