This is an analysis of the poem The Frogs that begins with:
I1.
Breathers of wisdom won without a quest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa b b a a c c Xd e d e X Xd f f d g b b Xh X h i i Xd j j g d c c Xh c c h d Xa f f a a f f Xc h X c e Xd h h d d j j Xg f d f a Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1001010101 1111010111 1001110111 1101000101 1100010101 1111110101 110111101 11010110101 1001111011 0111011111 1111010011 1111010101 1011011111 11011111110 01111011001 1111111111 1101010101 10111101010 1111000100 11110100101 1101011111 11011111001 0111010101 01001100111 0101001101 1100110111 01011000011 011010101010 1011010110 0101011101 100110010001 1100011100 1101110011 0011101111 1011011101 11011101001 11010100101 11001010101 1001000111 10110101001 1111010011 01110101110 1111110101 1001011101 01000110101 0100010101 1111001101 1101010101 1011101101 1111010011 110100101111 11011001001 1011011000 10011101011 1101100111 1011010011 1101111111 0100010100 111101110001 0101110101 01110110001 1101011101 0100110101 111100111011 10111111100 1011000111 1011111111 0101100101 1111111111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; her, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Frogs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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