This is an analysis of the poem Dinner And Dinty that begins with:

He dreaded not dark, nor the lonely road,
For the world, as he knew it, was kind.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcac dbdbecec fefedcdcXcacaecec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 101111011 11001110001 11001001 11100110101 11101001 11101001001 11011001 10101110111 10101101 1110110111 111001001 11000111101 11001011 1011101111 1011001 11111001101 111000101 10100101001 110111 110011110 11101101 11100100101 01011001 101101111 111001011 1110101101 01101111 111100101 10111011 11111001001 11011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 311
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; nor, he, and, we are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word cat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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