This is an analysis of the poem To A Dog that begins with:
Dear faithful object of my tender care,
Whom but my partial eyes none fancy fair;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101001101 1111011101 11100011101 1101010101 11010100101 1111110011 1001110101 1101111101 1101110101 11001000101 1111010111 0101011101 1101011101 1101010111 10110100101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 696
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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