This is an analysis of the poem Happy As A Dog's Tail that begins with:

Happy as something unimportant
and free as a thing unimportant. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcdXbaaXdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100010 111010010 1101110 1111101 110111 11111100 1100110010 1011001001 1011101 1101101 10 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; as is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word as is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines unimportant, what are repeated).

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