This is an analysis of the poem Verse For A Certain Dog that begins with:
Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes,
Dear little friend of mine, I never knew....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd aeaefgfg ededeheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001111101 1101011101 1100111111 1101110011 1101111101 0101111101 01010010101 1101001101 0101110101 1011111101 1011010101 1111010101 10011010111 101100011 1001010101 1110110111 100000101101 1111010101 11110111001 1011111101 1111010101 11010010011 1111010001 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word yours is repeated.
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