This is an analysis of the poem The Toad And Spyder. A Duell that begins with:
Upon a day, when the Dog-star
Unto the world proclaim'd a war,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd cceebbdXccffccgXhhfaggddbbddggbbbbddbbiiddjjcceeccbbkkddeelleeXbbbddbb ccjjXcbbmmXbXXiildcclXXaXbkkheaaggll eeXXllnncceeeeXXffgXbXdXkkfabbccbXaXccXXddkk ooaaddbb gXaakk ldooeeggdXbbggXkXcckkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,70,36,44,8,6,23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 10010101 1101011 10010101 10010111 01010111 10110100 10110011 10011111 01110101 10010111 1101111 01010011 01110100 10010101 101000101 1010111 10011001 1011101110 010101110 11011101 00110001 11011110 0100110 10101111 110111001 111101010 01010101 11110101 01010001 101101001 01110101 10010111 111011101 1101001 10010011 1010111 01100111 11010101 0111101 11010111 10011101 1110111 110001001 1010001011 01101101 10010111 1010111 11000101 10110101 11010101 11010001 11000101 10110111 110101001 01010101 11001111 00111001 1101111 11110011 110111001 01010011 110001001 01010101 101000111 10110101 11010111 0100011 11010111 0011010 01111101 1100111 110100010 11010101 10010111 110101101 11110101 11110111 10010101 11101101 0101111 00110101 1100101100 11110111 01111111 01001111 1111011 11111111 01111111 11010100 01011101 1100100 11011001 01000101 11011101 101011001 11010101 01010101 01010101 11000110 10111110 11011101 11010110 11010001 110100100 01111111 10011101 010101111 1110011 11111101 01011101 101011101 10111101 11010101 10110101 0101010 10010110 00110101 11110101 10111101 01010001 011111101 1110001 11010111 111010101 1101010 01011101 10110101 0110101 10110110 111111110 111111010 111100111 1101010 11110111 11110110 11111100 11011000 11011101 11100101 110010010 111001001 10010101 101010101 11111101 10110011 10111101 1101100 110100111 01010100 11010101 110101001 01010111 01010101 011010101 11011101 11010011 11010101 10110001 11001101 10010101 100010101 1110101 01010101 11010011 10010101 01010111 0110010 10010001 11011101 10010101 11010101 1110001 00010100 11010011 11000101 10001111 0100010 11010101 10010101 11011111 110101010 10101101 010010100 11100111 01011101 1100011 01010101 111001101 0111010 11011111 01010011 10011001 00110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 838
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 194
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; his, her, and, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Toad And Spyder. A Duell;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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