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

Frau Doktor,
Mama Brundig, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdefe Xghg fcic jkjle milmlnecojmb eoho Xpfp jbqi qebemnnnofojfd bbfn oipnfkoreaq dsojbbooeaXnojftoXdjprcne mpoafqhdbq tafeamgoeaaXfguXuu ooavscaaoadfjomm XXmjvoaXeanfnplm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,5,12,4,4,4,14,4,11,25,10,18,16,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110 1010 11111 0111 1111 1101 1111 00111 101 011010 1111 11110 1111 1101 1101 1111 1111 10111011 10110100 1001110 1001101 010111 011011 1011 10101 011001001 0111110 11010 10101 011101 10101 1011 111101 1010 0111 11110 1111 1010 1111 1111 10101 11101 101000101 111111 101101 1 1010 1010010 0100010 1101 110101 11010 1100001 0101 110111 0100111 11001101 101101 0101001 1101 011101 0111101101 00010001 111 111101 11011111 1000011101 111111 110111 110111 0111 11001 1111010 011111 100011 1110 10101 011111 1010110001 1100110 111110100 01010010 0110010 10100 110110100 111001 1111 1111 111011 111011 111011 11110 1110101 1110100 0110111 1101001 101011 11110010 1001101 1101101 011110101 101010 11010 110110 11001 1110110 1010101 0111010 110001 0111101 11110111010 111101 1010010 1110 101010 11100 0110 100101 1100 1101010 1101011 0101 101010010 00111 01010100 00111 100010111 1101 010101 10010010 11010 001010 1110101 10111010 11010010 01111 11111110 0110101 11101 110111101 11111 1110101 01 101010100100 01010100 100011 111111 1101010 11010 101111010 1100110 1111110010 11101 101011 100111101 111101 111011001 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 158
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; frog, he, wants, my, let, me, your, her, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you, frog, the, slime, he, my, and, a, let, that are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bed is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase frog connects the lines.

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