This is an analysis of the poem A Toad Can Die Of Light! that begins with:
A toad can die of light!
Death is the common right... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 100101 0111 0111 0100 1101 010100 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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