This is an analysis of the poem Another Reason Why I Don'T Keep A Gun In The House that begins with:
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abcd Acdba XeX aaXe XXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,3,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101110 1010011101 11110011101 111111111 010101110 111010001 111010010011 1111111010010 101010 1111111000100 011100010100 1010011101 1001100110110 10100101010 0111001010 10010011 1010010100010 10001010111 1101011010 10011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; barking is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines barking is repeated).
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