This is an analysis of the poem The Song Of The Garden-Toad that begins with:
Down, down beneath the daisy beds,
O hear the cries of pain! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbababbb XdcdXeXebe fadafgdg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 11000101 010111 110011001 110111 11110101 110001 11011101 011011 11110101 110111 11101101 110101 11101101 010101 11011001 100101 11111101 110101 101101 011101 100101001 111111 110001001 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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