This is an analysis of The Woman At The Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell.
The saris go by me from the embassies.
Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bc defgghhfaaibXXXj dajacebXjjXiad
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,16,14,
- Metre: 01011100100 10011001010 11110101010 11 0101111010 01111010011 101101110111 011101101 0111010011 01001010101 1010101000 101111111010 11101000110 10011011110 00101001101 1111110101 1010110011 1111010111 11011101010 01111111011 1111011101 01110100101 10100101110 100101110 10 111101110101 11011001101 111101110111 01101110111 0110100110 110 11111 111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 33
Repeated words/phrases
from, to, so, chief, no, of
Anaphora
you
Epiphora
chief
