This is an analysis of the poem Puppy And I that begins with:
I met a Man as I went walking:
We got talking,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAbcbcX aAbXbbX aAbXbXX aAbXbXX aAbXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110 1110 111 111100111 110011111 100100111 01101111 110111110 1110 111 111100110 110011111 100100111 01101111 1101011110 1110 1011 11110010110 1100101111 1001001110 01101111 1111011110 1110 1011 1111001111 1100101111 100100111 01101111 1101011110 1110 1011 111100111 1100101111 10010111 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, man, to, horse, woman, ' are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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