This is an analysis of the poem The Angel Food Dogs that begins with:
Leaping, leaping, leaping,
down line by line,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddeaX fghi ihbXdhdXdefeXa jkllilgiXdkcjeXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,14,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 1111 1010010 100101011 100010110010 1111 11010 0011011 111111 01110 11110 1110000100 101111101 11101110 1111 1111111100 11101 110101010 101 111101010 1111001 11001 11001 11000110001101 110011110 1101101 110101 10000101011 101010010 1010 1111 11110 110011 1111111110 11011 10 11 1101111011 01 10110 1110101101 1110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; leaping, i, may, mary, be, want, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, i, give are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines forever is repeated).
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