Analysis of The Frog
Hilaire Belloc 1870 (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) – 1953
Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As 'Slimy skin,' or 'Polly-wog,'
Or likewise 'Ugly James,'
Or 'Gap-a-grin,' or 'Toad-gone-wrong,'
Or 'Bill Bandy-knees':
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets like these.
No animal will more repay
A treatment kind and fair;
At least so lonely people say
Who keep a frog (and, by the way,
They are extremely rare).
| Scheme | ABABXCXC DEDDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 011111 11011101 11101 11011111 11101 01110100 11011 11001101 010101 11110101 11010101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 371 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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