This is an analysis of the poem Frogs In Chorus that begins with:
The chorus frogs in the big lagoon
Would sing their songs to the silvery moon. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXX aaXXddXX ccccXdXX eeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 1111001001 10100101 1100110101 110010101 110100111 011100101 1110111111 1110 101010110110 010100101 100101101 10111011010 1111110100 1011100101 1010110011101 11100 1010101101100 011100101 1110101111 11010111 1110111101 1111001110 1011111101 1110 101010110110 010101111 110100101 110100101 1010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; croak, coke, that, work are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines croak, coke, work are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases croak, coke, work connect the lines.
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