This is an analysis of the poem The Woman At The Washington Zoo that begins with:

The saris go by me from the embassies.
Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bc defgghhfaaibXXXj dajacebXjjXiad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,16,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01011100100 10011001010 11110101010 11 0101111010 01111010011 101101110111 011101101 0111010011 01001010101 1010101000 101111111010 11101000110 10011011110 00101001101 1111110101 1010110011 1111010111 11011101010 01111111011 1111011101 01110100101 10100101110 100101110 10 111101110101 11011001101 111101110111 01101110111 0110100110 110 11111 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; from, to, so, chief, no, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chief is repeated).

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