This is an analysis of the poem Dogheads that begins with:
AMONG the grassroots
In the moonlight, who comes circling,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXa bXX bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011 001111100 111110 010011100 11 0011111110 1011010110 0100101011001001 111011 1101101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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- summary of Dogheads;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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