This is an analysis of the poem Crocodile's Toothache that begins with:
Oh the Crocodile
Went to the dentist...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXbbXXcXccdXeedadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 10010 111001 101011111 1101110 10101111101 1101001011 1110011111 101011101 1010110001 111011111 10101111011 1111101111 10101100111 111111101 11011101 11110001111 11000111 1010111101 111111101 01111111 11110011 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 884
- Average number of words per stanza: 176
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, ho are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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