This is an analysis of the poem The Bullfrog Bell that begins with:
Now the truce of night brings respite to the sordid care of day,
And in listlessness I pace the river side, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc fcfcccXffffcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011100010101 10100110101 101010101110101 10101001001 1010010101010111 0010101000111 101001101010101 10101010111 0101111011101 10101110101 10111010111101 1010101000111 101000101010001 10101010011 111010101110101 11111010110 11111010111101 1010101000111 111010101010011 10100010101 101000100101001 10100010101 111000101010101 0010101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, may, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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