This is an analysis of the poem The Sweet O' The Year that begins with:

Now the frog, all lean and weak,
Yawning from his famished sleep, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc efefcc ffffcc cgcgcc hfhfcc ijijcc kekecc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 10001001 1000111 1111111 1011101 11101101 1011101 00100101 1010101 1010101 1011111 11101101 10100101 11101001 10000101 1010101 1111101 11101101 1011111 10111011 1000101 1010101 1011101 10101101 1010111 1011101 1000101 11100101 010100101 10001101 1011111 1000101 10011101 1010101 1011101 1101101101 1011101 1010101 10010101 10010101 10110111 10101101 1110001 1110111 1110101 1110101 1011101 10001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word every is repeated.

    The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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