This is an analysis of the poem The Toad that begins with:
O who shall tell us of the truth of things?
The day was ending blood--red in the West... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcaXeXdaaa afbgXedbchdiaa jdcgidecXcebakikce ddachgbckdccgbeckdjdibXc hdaglXabfagbdaedgb kgcbXcedd ffgcbdgdbcgealdgba ddbXgbacbcmnfofdjgegpcd cagX pbgfocecfmcamfcdn damkcXcpcjdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,14,18,24,18,9,18,23,4,17,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111100101 0111011001 1001011101 1001010101 0101110101 10011101010 0111001100 1111001111 0101010101 01110001001 1010001101 11110010001 10110101001 0111010101 0111010001 0101101101 1101010111 00101011000 1101010111 0111111111 0001100101 11111101001 10010101010 11010010111 1011001101 10011100111 010000011001 01111100101 10011010111 1001110111 010001100010 1111011101 1001011111 1111001101 1110110101 1101111100 1111011101 0110010111 11011010101 11110001001 1101010101 010111010001 1101111101 1011111111 1101010100 0111011001 01010100101 1111010101 01110111010 11010011010 1111110101 110110110111 1101111101 1111011101 1001010101 10001010111 1111110111 1101000100 1111110111 011001111100 1101110101 01011110101 1011111111 01101111001 1101011101 110011010101 1111111111 1101011101 0100110001 110101010010 1101001111 10010011001 1101011101 01010011001 101010101010 0111110111 1111001011010 00010011101 0111010101 11110101001 1011010100 1011010101 1111010101 0100010111 01110111011 0110110101 1101110101 1111011101 10010101011 0111011111 1001110111 01001110101 1100111100 11010110101 111100101101 1111010001 1101110011 0101111101 1101010101 11110010111 11011000101 1101111011 1111011101 1001111001 10101010101 1001101101 10101110111 10101101101 1101011001 1111010101 1011010101 0101101101 0110010111 1011011111 10101010101 0100111111 1010111101 1001010101 11101111111 10111011001 1011010011 1101011011 1001010001 1011101101 1101000101 1001011010001 0111110101 111110111001 001010100110 11010101111 1101010100 1011011111 0100010001 1101100101 1001010100 1011010111 11010011101 11010111001 1111010001 1011011101 11101010100 11000101010 1101011011 10001001101 1001011101 01101011101 10011101010 0100101111 1001010101 101011111001 1011111111 11011100110 1101110001 10101010001 1001011011 1001101101 1100010101 1101111101 1001011101 1111011011 1101111101 10101111100 01001101111 1111011111 11001101001 1101111100 0111111101 0111011001 1101010101 00101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
- Average number of words per stanza: 134
- Amount of lines: 170
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, he, from, what, had, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for, and are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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