Analysis of At the Zoo
Alan Alexander Milne 1882 – 1956
There are lions and roaring tigers,
and enormous camels and things,
There are biffalo-buffalo-bisons,
and a great big bear with wings.
There's a sort of a tiny potamus,
and a tiny nosserus too -
But I gave buns to the elephant
when I went down to the Zoo!
There are badgers and bidgers and bodgers,
and a Super-in-tendent's House,
There are masses of goats, and a Polar,
and different kinds of mouse,
And I think there's a sort of a something
which is called a wallaboo -
But I gave buns to the elephant
when I went down to the Zoo!
If you try to talk to the bison,
he never quite understands;
You can't shake hands with a mingo -
he doesn't like shaking hands.
And lions and roaring tigers
hate saying, "How do you do?" -
But I give buns to the elephant
when I go down to the Zoo!
Scheme | ababacDC aexexxDC xfxfacdc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001010 00101001 111101 0011111 10110101 001011 111110100 1111101 11100101 0010011 1110110010 0100111 0111011010 11101 111110100 1111101 111111010 110101 11111010 1101101 01001010 1101111 111110100 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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