This is an analysis of the poem The Unicorn that begins with:
A long time ago, when the earth was green
and there was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcaa aXdd bcaX XXdd bcaX acaa XXXa bcXX eeffXbcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110110111 11111010011101 1110111011101 10100110101 11110101111 111010101010 11100000011111 0100110101 101111010111 1111010101 1111010111101 11110101 11111010101001 110101011010 11100000011111 1011011100 11011110010 11101011101110 1100100111 11111111 1111111010111001 110101011010 111000000110101 011111100 1101110101 1010001010101 101011000101 1010101 00110101011010 01001010001011010 01101010101010 11011010101 1101101010111 010101010010 101101001010 1111110100 10110101010001 101001100111 10101111010001 1111010101001 110101010101101 11101010110010 11100000011111 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; and, there, two, he, your, started, see, you'll, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there, he, the, you'll are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word unicorn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Unicorn;
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- critical appreciation.
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