This is an analysis of the poem Animals that begins with:
Have you forgotten what we were like then
when we were still first rate...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX Xaa XXb bXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011011 110111 101110110001 011100011 1101011111 111110 01101111 11011000 111011101110 11010010 110110100111 0010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 541
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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