This is an analysis of the poem Hippo's Hope that begins with:
There once was a hippo who wanted to fly --
Fly-hi-dee, try-hi-dee, my-hi-dee-ho....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbbcXdedcXdedcaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101011001 1111111111 111111111101 1111111111 11001001001 1111111111 001101101101 1111111111 1010 111111111011 1111111111 111111010001 1111111111 01010 111101111101 1111111111 11111111101 1111111111 1010 111101111101 1111111111 111111111011 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1013
- Average number of words per stanza: 214
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dee, hi, fly, and, he are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases fly, sky, snow, stone, bones, sea connect the lines.
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- summary of Hippo's Hope;
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- history of its creation;
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