This is an analysis of the poem Frogs Eat Butterflies, Snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs that begins with:
It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine,
Tugging at banks, until they seemed...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc abX bXX dcX Xdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 001101011011 10110111 110101001 101110001011 01010101 100101000 101101001010 01110001 11010100 101000100101 01001001 010011000 101001101010 1011101001 111100011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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