This is an analysis of the poem Elephants Are Different To Different People that begins with:
Wilson and Pilcer and Snack stood before the zoo elephant.
Wilson said, 'What is its name? Is it from Asia or Africa? Who feeds...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcdX XbXdb XbX XbbaXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101110101100 101100100010110011 0000110111001111111 010111101001110010 1100110110101101 1110001011 101011010111000011 0110111100110111 110101011101011111 011010110010110111 1110010010 111111111001101 10011111111011111 1101010010100 1101110100 1101101011010 111010011 110111 110101011101 1011010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
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; it, how, much, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wilson, it, they are repeated.
The author used the same word wilson at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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