This is an analysis of the poem The Haughty Snail-King that begins with:
Twelve snails went walking after night.
They'd creep an inch or so,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbXcXcXc addbeedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 1011111 111111 11 111101 11110100 111111 101111001 110111 10010101 110100 011110101 010101 11010001 110101 11110101 11111111 101110101 11001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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