This is an analysis of the poem The Frog And The Golden Ball that begins with:
She let her golden ball fall down the well
And begged a cold frog to retrieve it;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdXd XeXe caaX XdbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011101 110110010 1111010101 01111010 11010100101 11011010 11111010101 11101010 111010101101 11100010 00101110101 110010010 11111011101 010111101 111011010011 1110101 11111111010 1100111 110011100111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
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- summary of The Frog And The Golden Ball;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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