This is an analysis of the poem The Bullfrog that begins with:
They may talk of the bird with plumage blue,
And the bird with the bosom red ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc bX d XD b ab ae d Xd X ec ed dX d X cd XX dX d X fg fg dXXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,1,2,1,2,2,1,2,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110010101 10100101 11000100111 11111001 11110101101 0101001 1111111111 100101 1011110101 11110101 11111110111 10100111 1101100111 101011001 11111111111 1101001 0101010111 10111101 1110110111 100101 1110110111 0111001 1111111111 100111 111011111101 11101001 11110101101 11001101011 10100101001 01001001 1111111111 100111 1101111011 11001001 11001001001 0100111 111110111 101101101 11111111111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 60
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, with, as, ker, he, ' are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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