This is an analysis of the poem The Smoking Frog that begins with:
Three men I saw beside a bar,
Regarding o'er their bottle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee fgfg hXad iXig fXfg jkjX XXjl hkhk fgfgXflfl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 01010110 01110101 10101010 01010110 1101110 10010101 0101110 11011111 1001010 01000111 0111010 010100101 1011010 01111111 0101010 00110011 1101010 01010011 0101010 01010101 0111010 11011101 0110110 11110101 1110000 01000111 0111010 01010111 100110010 000100111 11010100 01010101 0111010 11110111 0111010 11010101 0101010 01111101 01001010 11010101 0100110 11010101 0101010 11010111 1101110 11110001 0111110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; it, and, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The author used the same word it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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