This is an analysis of the poem The Circus Animals' Desertion that begins with:
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I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbcbcdd X eeeeeeff adadadXg fafafXgg XXdbdbdbdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,8,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1101111001 1101011111 10111010101 11010101111 1011011101 1101000111 1101110100 1011010111 1 1111010111 11110101101 1101010101001 110110101 10001011101 1101111101 1111111101 11101000101 1101011101 11010101110 11011100101 11001011000010 1111101101 100101011010 1011011101 0101111111 1101111101 10010010001 11001111101 0101010101 1001010101 0010011101100 1011011111 1111110100 1 11001000101 1011110101 010011010001 11011010101 11011111101 1101111101 1111110101 0011111001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; sought, i, vain, and, old, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, old are repeated.
The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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