This is an analysis of the poem Magellanic Penguin that begins with:
Neither clown nor child nor black
nor white but verticle...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXbcdae cXfffffgaXgc gcchebghdXacgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,12,14,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 11110 10100100 10111 01011010 010110100 1011111 1111011 100010010 00100100 01001010 11011011 100110000 10111001 0010101 0110111 11101 101 0111101 0101010 10111001 111111101 1101001 0101101 01001 00101 01101 01101 11011100 01111 100100101 1010 1010100 01001001 10111001 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, at, child, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, did are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes is repeated).
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