This is an analysis of the poem For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly that begins with:

For it was the first day of Rosh Ha'shanah, New Year's Day, day of remembrance, of ancient sacrifices and averted calamities.
For I started the...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabccadXdeXfagcgXdXXdbfecXfhXffXhfabX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110110011110010010101010100100 11100111011010101100010 111001010101000111 1111101101110101111010001010101001110101111101101010010001 101010010111010010010101111110001000100010011 1111101010 1110001110100100111111111110011 1110111110111 10101001001 11111 1110111100101100111111111101110 11111110110001101101 1111110110100101010110111111010100111 10101010011011101101111101010101101111101 111100101111111111111101 10010101011011000101000100101110111 1011011010010 111111000100101000111011011 11101010100101101001010010110101101000100 1101110101011100110100 11111101111011011101101 1110110111111001100010010111101110011011 111010001110100101100101100110010 10101010100010 110010001000111001100001 111011111111101 111010101001 110101001110110 111010001110011101001 101010110 1111010111101 11011010010010100100101 11101111000111010101010 111010101 1111101001111011101001010101001 111110111010101 111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3441
  • Average number of words per stanza: 677
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 92 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 18
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, of, sake, his, day, to, i, and, stone, that, it, her, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

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