This is an analysis of the poem His Dog that begins with:

Pete bristles when the doorbell rings.
Last night he didn't act the same....

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcdc efefghgh ijijdjdj hdhdkhkh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010111 11110101 11010101 11010101 111101110 01110101 11111111 01111111 11010101 11011101 11010111 10011101 11010101 11010101 11010101 111100111 11011101 11010101 111100101 11011101 11111101 11010111 11110101 11010111 01010111 11010101 01111101 11110101 11011101 11010101 110011101 11010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, my, an', i are repeated.

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