This is an analysis of the poem The Hill-Side Men that begins with:
O were my heart a little dog
I'd call it to my side...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaabcdcabdXXcdcacXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110101 110011 01000101 111001 11010101 110111 110101010 010111 10110101 111101 01110111 110100 11011101 010111 11010101 010111 11111111 111111 11110101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; my is repeated.
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