This is an analysis of the poem Jumbo Jet that begins with:
I saw a little elephant standing in my garden,
I said 'You don't belong in here', he said 'I beg you pardon?',...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXaa bbaa cc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010100100110 1111010101111110 11110101111010 11111101111111 11010100110001 11001010111101 1101010110101 1100010111101 001111001101111 111100101110101 11001011010100101 010101011010011 1011110000101 110111000111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, said, where, but are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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