This is an analysis of the poem Billy's Alphabetical Animal Show that begins with:
A was an elegant Ape
Who tied up his ears with red tape,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbX ccddX eeXee ffXXX bbbXX eegge hXhXh eeXee iijji eekke hhXhh iilXX bbXXX iiiiX bbmmb hhbbh bbnnX lljjl oommo ppeeX iihhi XXeeX jXnnX Xihhi hhkXh iikki hhqqh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001 11101011 11011 101001 111011011 1101011 11011101 1110111 010111 11011111 1101011 11001001 111100 101001 11110111 1101001 11101011 111100 111010 11111010 1111001 11111101 1111010 111110 01011101 11011010 111111110 1110110 101110 111111110 1101001 11011101 101111 11101 1001001101 1101101 111101101 1011100 101101 1110111001 11110010 01101010 111101 111101 111011010 1101111 111011001 0010110 010110 1101001 1101011 1110011001 11011 011001 11011101 1101011 111111111 111110 011010 01001101 1101011 111101001 111010 011100 11101101 110100100 1110111111 110111 111011 1101101101 1111011 101101001 111011 111111 11111011 1101001 11011111 111101 111001 11111001 1101001 11101001 01001 011101 001011111 1101101 01001001 101011 101101 01101001 1001011 101011111 11011 101111 1010010001 1101001 111011001 111101 01011 111011111 110101100 01100110100 1110110 011010 1111111100 11010010 111110011 11101 101101 00101111100 10010111 111111111 111010 111010 111110111 1101011 001111111 011110 110110 11001001 1001001 101011011 1011010 110010 1100111 1001001 01001001 110010 110010 01001001 10010100 111010110 110100 100100 11010110
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 135
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, to, and, us, hoo, it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, us, it, 'em are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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