This is an analysis of the poem Kangaroo that begins with:
Delicate mother Kangaroo
Sitting up there rabbit-wise, but huge, plump-weighted, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXa efgh dgbiic Xj ededj fjXbhkl eXXXeeXhk iXblhX dimmg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,2,5,7,9,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 101110111110 11001001011111 10110110101101 100101010111011 11110010101 01001111 010100111 11110101101110 101010010 01011110010010 11011010101110 0011101011011 1000111110 101010001000101 10100110111111 0100110 1001001100101001 11111011011 111001000101111 110111 10111001 110111111001 101110100011 110110001010110 11110010 110101 10010101100100100 10101001 1001001001101 111000101100 1101110110010 10101011 110111010010100 010 11000100100 0110001011001 101100101101100 1 110111111101 11 1111111010111 11011101111 1111011100100000 1011 100100100101 110110110101 010110 1011011000110100 10
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, thin, of, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word her is repeated.
The author used the same word her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word tail at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Kangaroo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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