This is an analysis of the poem Road-Side Dog that begins with:

I went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110100100011101100011100010101011010000101010101010010110101001111111011110110100101010101101101001011100111011100000100101011110100110010100110100110010100111101110101000101100100010000011101011000101111110001010010100000110110111111101000111110110101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1018
  • Average number of words per stanza: 197
  • Amount of lines: 1
  • Average number of symbols per line: 1018 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 197
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Road-Side Dog;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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