This is an analysis of the poem There's A Bullfrog In The Well. that begins with:
Homesick to-night ! My heart is sick,
And, as days of yore, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bc bX b a bd bX b b eX eX e d f X a fd f c bb bcXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,2,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11101 11010101 110101 0111011 0100101 11010101 1101001 111110101 110011 11111001 011101 01111101 110111 11011101 110111 10110101 111101 11010101 110111 011100 11010111 010111 01010101 110111 11110101 100101 01010111 010101 11010111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 41
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, of, her are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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