This is an analysis of the poem Central Park Zoo that begins with:

for Marian
Looking at the zoo the great white park...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcCadefghfi jb kfkXgkga kjkjbgaaaeiehfXgXjceX ajdXkgl gXC flXmkgjccmke
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,2,8,21,7,3,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100 101010111 00101010111 111110 101001111011 0101000010100 0111010011 10100100111 101110111010 010101100010 010001010101 101101101010 110101001101 10100100101001 11001011 01010110101 010010100110011011101011010101001 010111011111101110111101010001010 01010 0101 11001 10101101110001 1100100100100100 110001101101 011011110 0110100 010010001 011101001 0111011001 111100 01001101010 111010001011 0011010 11110101 11010111001 10101000111101 1101010101 101011 01000110010 100111 11101101 1011001011 1010110110010010 011000101001010 010100100001 0111101010 11010010001 10001111 011100011011 011111 111101111 110100110 111110 11010100111101 1010001100 10101011111100 10110 1000101 11010100 010011 11101111111 10110010110 111010 10101110 0100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; with, of, pair, we are repeated.

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

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