This is an analysis of the poem A Crocodile that begins with:
Nay, Peter Robertson, 'tis not for you
To blubber o'er Max Taubles for he's dead.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcc dededeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001111 01010110111 11011001101 1100011001 1111111101 0101010101 11010101110 010011101010 0010000101 1100010101 1101110101 0101000111 01001011111 1111011101 01110110110 01011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of is repeated.
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