This is an analysis of the poem The Pobble Who Has No Toes that begins with:

The Pobble who has no toes
Had once as many as we;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbXXccaX AdadeeaX dedeffXX Xdbdgghh Xgagbbaa AcXciiaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111 1111011 111101111010 1011010010 101100111 10010101 1111101001 11010101010 011111 10101010 1011111101 00101010 1011001101 1100100101 10100110101 11010110100 011111 11111111 11001001001 11101111 1101011001 1111100101 11101101100 101010100 1011101 01001010 011101001 01001010 111100101 100100111 01110101 1010110101 1111101 01110001 101100101 001011010 10011111 110111001 111111111 1011100111 011111 1100101 1111111011 0011001 11110110101 011101101 11110010111 110110001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 306
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; his, 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.

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

    The poet repeated the same word toes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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