This is an analysis of the poem A Frog's Fate that begins with:

Contemptuous of his home beyond
The village and the village-pond, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddee ffgghhiijbb kkkklljX iiXckk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,11,8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010000101 01010101 0110111111 1010010011 11011101 11011101 010111001 01010101 01110111 01011111 11010111 11111101 01110101 1110101 01011101 010100101 11011111 101110101 110111011 1101010011 111101011 01011111 01001101 11000101 10110011 10011101 01010101 010001101 01000100 11111111 11000111 01010110 001001001 01000101 00111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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