This is an analysis of the poem A Crocodile that begins with:
Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river-dragon stretched along,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbacXdXcbXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010111 0101010101 011000011000 01010001101 11011101110 1101010111 1011000101 0101010101 01011101001 01010100101 0011011011 100010110001 01010001001 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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