This is an analysis of the poem The Dogs that begins with:
My desires are upon me like dogs, I beat them back,
Yet they yelp upon my track;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaBB cccccccC ddeeffggbbaa hhcccCBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,12,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011111101 1110111 1111111111111 1110111 11110110111 0101011 0100101101001 00100101 010111101111 100101 11110100111 011001 111101111010 1001010 100101101010 10101010 10010001001 0110111 100101101001 00101101 11101100101 11101111 011011111111 1111111 11111111101111 11111001 111101011011 1110101 110111111111 011001 1111111111111 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my, of, she, and, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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