This is an analysis of the poem A Dog's Mistake that begins with:
He had drifted in among us as a straw drifts with the tide,
He was just a wand'ring mongrel from the weary world outside; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eecc aXXX ccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111000111011001 111010100010111 111010101010111 001010101010101 111011101100111 111111101110101 111110101010001 111110101110101 101010101010101 101010101110101 111010101010101 101000101110011 101000101111101 00101010100101010 101011100100101 111110101011101 111010101010101 101011101111001 111010111010101 11101010111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, it, for, we, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
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