This is an analysis of the poem A Little Dog that begins with:
A little dog disturbed my trust in Heaven.
I praised most faithfully...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXabbc deeddffd dbbdgbbg addabccb abbadbbX beebahha diXddaad bXXbX bbiXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,8,8,8,8,8,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111010 111100 101110 1111010 1111010 0111110 100111 1111010111 11110 1101010 1100011101 1101101101 0101110 1101010 111101 0101010111 111100 111100 1001010111 1101111101 11010 01010 011101111 1101111100 1101 0101 1101111111 11111111010 1101 1011 100111010 1101011101 10010 011010 11110011101 1110011110 01010 0110 11001001110 1111011010 10110 11010 1101011010 1101011010 01101 11111 00101011010 111101101 1001 0101 0001000101 1011111111 11010 11010 1001110111 11110101110 011000 111000 11110100010 1111010111 10010 11110 010111011111 1111111111 11110 01110 1111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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