This is an analysis of the poem The Dog And His Master that begins with:
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door
Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeebbffgg ccXgcccchhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011010101 1101111111 11001110111 1101011101 11100110111 11011000001 0101010111 0111100101 10110100111 1001010101 1111111101 1111111111 0111010001 1101110111 1101010001 1111010111 1101111101 1100010101 1101011111 01001110111 0101011101 1100011101 1101011101 1111110101 0111010111 1101110101 1101011111 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor, and are repeated.
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