This is an analysis of the poem The Bulldog Breed that begins with:
'It's dogged as does it.' They've made it a saying,
A motto to hold in that tight little isle ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme:
- Stanza lengths (in strings):
- Closest metre:
- Сlosest rhyme:
- Сlosest stanza type:
- Guessed form:
- Metre:
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, they are repeated.
The author used the same word 'it's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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