This is an analysis of the poem Dogs that begins with:
Spaniels are all very well,
But they smell....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc ddee cc ff cc dX gg hh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,4,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 111 10001011 101 101111 111 1100100100100 1100100 001001001 01010101 1111111 01101 1011001 1101 1011111011 10001 110110100 11111100 1111000101101 01 0101101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 60
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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- summary of Dogs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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