This is an analysis of the poem Ogs that begins with:
It chanced one day, in the middle of May,
There came to the great King Splosh... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdeXfXX XghhaXddiijXkX gglXmmkkmXbb jaXfXkckeek XXlljjnXgg bbbXmmnnnnXj aaddbbkklliX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,14,12,11,10,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011001001 1100111 00101111001 1000101 0110110101 1100111 111110010010 0110111 101100 111000 111101 10111111010 101111011001 11110100111 11000111101 01111001001 01101001001 10111001101 11001101001 11001001001 01101001011 10110100101 111111111 10111001001 1011101001 1011111001 1111101111 1110100101 111001011010 110100111 011111101 111110111 100101101 111001011011 00100111011 10101011001 1001011001 10110101111 10100101 101011111010 0100100 10100110111 00100111 110110011010 1100101 110100 100100 111101 1011110111 111001011111 101111111 10100100111 11100110101 11100110111 10111111101 01100111111 1011110101 0100100111 10111001001 101110001001 1111111010001 11011001011 10111011001 110100101 1100101111 1101011011 110100110111 00110100101 1110011110010 10101011011 1101101101001 01101011001 111101110011 101101001111 101001101101 111011111001 11001011001 11101111001 111001001101 101011011101 111011101011 111010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 515
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of, they, his, stones are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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