This is an analysis of the poem The Monkey that begins with:

The heat was fierce. Great forests were on fire.
Time dragged its feet in dust. A cock was crowin...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXcbebfghaibcfajXgXhjcakehbddkdbiXhbkhkXhXckdcabX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01111100110 11010101110 1010101 11110 1101110101 01001010101 0101010111 1101110111 11010101010 0101 0101011 10010101010 1101000101 00100101010 1101010111 0001 101101 110111111 10 1111011001 1111110100 01011100010 111101001 1 1001111111 0111010101 10010111010 10111100010 10010101110 01010100010 1011110101 0101011101 1101011101 11110100110 1001110111 1100111001 11110101011 1111110011 01110100110 0101101101 11001110010 1001011111 0101000101 1011101101 01010011 101 1101100101 10110111001 0111000101 0110001101 10010101010 1100010101 1101111101 0100101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1029
  • Average number of words per stanza: 189
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and, his are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Monkey;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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