This is an analysis of the poem Animals Are Passing From Our Lives that begins with:

It's wonderful how I jog
on four honed-down ivory toes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX cccb bbcb bbXb cbcX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100111 11111001 1101010 1110111 0010111 010101111 0111001 1010110 1110010 101011 0111010 100101001 1000010 1111101 1111101 1110101 1101011 1111111 1011011 1110111 01001010 1111101 1000101 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

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  • summary of Animals Are Passing From Our Lives;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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