This is an analysis of the poem Toth Farry that begins with:

In the back of the charm-box, in a sack, the baby
canines and incisors are mostly chaff, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacXdXbdXXdedadfdgXegXXXfcdcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010011001010 1110101101 111101100011 101011 1110100010 100101000 0111100101 11111101010 10101110 111101001 11111110 0101011001 111101100101110 1001101011 11011010110 100100011111 10001000111 1110111 01010111001 01001011111 11101010 10100010101 101110100 101010010 1011000101 10110101 0111010101 100101110 1011101111 101101010 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 229
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, my, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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  • summary of Toth Farry;
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