This is an analysis of the poem At The Sheep-Dog Trials that begins with:
What ancestors unite
Here in this red and white...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc ddbb eecc aacc ffff ggXX aahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 100111 1001 010001 110101 111111 010101 100101 100101 110001 110111 010001 111101 010101 110111 11011 110101 0101001 101001 010111 110101 010101 010111 110001 11111 110001 110101 01100 1110101 111101 1100101 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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