This is an analysis of the poem To A Rhinoceros that begins with:
Rhinoceros, your hide looks all undone,
You do not take my fancy in the least:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100111101 1111110001 11011101011 0100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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