This is an analysis of the poem To A Stray Dog that begins with:
Well, Towser (I'm thinking your name must be Towser),
You're a decentish puppy as puppy dogs go,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb XbXb cXcX adad cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010111010 101001011011 1110011110110 11110000111 111110110010 01011011001 110010010010 11111011011 111010111010 01100001001 110011011100 01001011001 111110010110 01001011011 1100101101010 010010000110 110110110011 01001011001 0011010110011 11011001011 011101110010 01011111101 111111110110 11111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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