This is an analysis of the poem Snake And Potato Bug that begins with:
A TRUE TALE.
'Can such things be and overcome us like a summer cloud, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX bcbdce ffee ggcc hhii ddaa jjggXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,6,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 011 11101101110101 01110101100 0010010100101011001010 1100011110001010001011 1110100111110101011 01001101001111011010 1001101101101101010 11010111 11010111 11111101 11110101 00010011 10100010 110111110 1111101 0010111 1010101 1011101 11011111 11111011 01001011 1110011 010110010 010100010 11001101 0100101 10111010 00101010 1110111 1010011 11010011 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; being, it, of are repeated.
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