This is an analysis of the poem Zone that begins with:

At last you're tired of this elderly world
Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a X b cde afagahch idXbdchjkh bbXh ajlemXenbnXha opoXqokXdkkahhXchgaXhkr aXhhXh ackabgnpib Xb oXhhqf qghXaa Xjbk Xnchpjh h r o bdXX kf hXbiif hhjndhkr gXhXhh ss k jk b k b e hk hq pj mXlc oXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,3,8,10,4,13,23,6,10,2,6,6,4,7,1,1,1,4,2,6,8,6,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001001 10011010010010110 1111000100 1001001101 010010101001010 01110111110 01101011100111 01101010110101 01011111 00100011010 1010010101 1100010111110010 0100101101101 010001101010010 11010101010101 11100101100 01001001001000 111111001110 1110010101 1011001011 0100101111 0100110101011 1101011 1010010010110101010111 1011111010 11110011110 110101011010110 100111101100 0101010011111 111100110 11101001001001 1010101010 01010010010 01011110000 010111100010010 01010101001 01010101010100 0101101 010111111110111 0101111011000 1101011101 110001 1001000100101 1110100110101 1000011101 1101001010100010 0101010111 101001010011 110100101000010 10110011111 011110101100100 1010010010101 01011101010 10001010 1110101110 0100101100 01110010110 11010010010010 0010111010 100100110101 0101010 111011111010 1101010010 010111110011 10010011010 011011001001 010010110010 1110110001 10110100110 1000100111 1110010010101 1010101111 1101011 11100101 001101111001010 110101011010 11110101010111 01101111011 110010001010 1011010010 11100100101100 011111100100101010 0100010101110111 010110111010 0101010100 011100010001 1010010101110100 1001001111 1111101010 10101110110 111001 1001100101011 11101011101 1101001010111 1100101111101 11010100101010 101010101110 1101001000101 01111010100100110 10110101101 1110101100 00101001110 11110101011 10010100111 001001001010 100100101010 10101001010 1010101011 1010100111101010 101010010010 111110101000100 10101011111010 110101010101 1110011101001 11110011010 100100100111 10101110101110 11101111011 11111111101101 111011111011101 1111101010110 1010111110110 010011001001001 101011001011 1010110100101 1001110101010 1100100110011011 100111100010 10011011010100 0011011101011100 11101011111111 110110100110 11101001011 111101010101 110101010011 10101010101 110010010111 11011101111010 1111011100100 10010000110010 01110101111 110101010010 11011000110 1011101 0101010001 11001000101 1001011010 1111101110111 11111101 1101011011101 1101111110100 1001010101 0100100101 1111 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 156
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, behold, it, your, you, from, at, in, on, to, her, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, behold, you, they are repeated.

    The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines time is repeated).

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  • summary of Zone;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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