This is an analysis of the poem The Elusive New Zoo Gnu that begins with:
They had a new gnu at the Zoo
And nobody knew.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaXXaXaaXaaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11111 101011101 111001 11101111 11111 101011001 101001 01 101001001 11001 001011101 11101 111011001 01101 011001111 11001 01 111011111 101101 101101101 001001 11101011 001001 0110111 11101 101 111011101 101111 11111011 11101 101101101 11111 01011111 101101101 1100001111 101101001 101001011 11011011 01101001 11010010 11001101 1111 110101001 001001010 10111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; ever, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Elusive New Zoo Gnu;
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