This is an analysis of the poem The Frog And The Nightingale that begins with:

Once upon a time a frog
Croaked away in Bingle Bog...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXccdeff ccbbggedaaf fhhbbhhXXii ggjjXXaaeebbbX XjcXffffbX XXeekXggiX XXhhbbhhbb jjXklXggjj hhhhffXXjXkk kkkkffXikXiX ggjjhhcchhff mmbXgghh kkccbblXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,11,11,14,10,10,10,10,12,12,12,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 10010101 10010101 11011111 1010101 1011111 1010100 1100101 1110111 10011101 1011111 0110111 10101010 00101010 1110100 0011111 1010101 1010100 1110101 1010101 1010101 1111101 11111010 00111010 1010101 1010101 11111010 10111010 1001100111001 1010011 1010101 1110101 1110100 1011101 1111101 1110101 1110101 100111111 1100101 1010001 1000101101 0011101 0011101 1110101 1011111 11101110 101011111 10111111 0011101 101010100 101010001 1010101 1010011 1010111 10110101 111110100 101101100 10101100 1010111 1110101 10101010 101100100 100100100 11000101 11110001 101011100 101101010 10110011110 10100010 10100110 01111010 11101010 10011001 1010101 10101010 10111010 11100110 10101010 1011100100 101111010 1111111 11111111 1011100 1011101 1110111100 101111100 1011101 0010101 1010111 0010101 1010101 1011001 10100100 10101011 100010100 001001100 10101010 00111110 100101110 11101010 101101010 11111110 0010111 1110011 1111111 10000111 111110100 10101010 11111010 111110100 1110100 1110011 1110101 11101101 10111110 10111010 1010101 1111101 10101010 00111010 1010001 1011101 1011101 10011101 11111010 111101100 10010101 1010100 1110101 1110111 101101010 11101010 1110111 1110100 1111111 1111011 1111001 101111111 1010001 11000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 363
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; awn, and, her, your, far, too are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines night, her are repeated).

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