This is an analysis of the poem With Dog And Gun that begins with:
Out in the woods with a dog an' gun
Is my idea of a real day's fun....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXdd bbaaeeaaffdd gghhbbccddii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100100111 0101000111 10110101 110100101 0110101101 111101101 1100111111 1111111111 1111100101 0011101100 1101110111 1011111101 1011100111 1011101111 110111111 1100100101 110100101 1101101101 1011101111 0011101111 110101111 1110111101 110111111 1111101101 1011111101 1010101110 1011100101 1011010101 1111111100 11110111101 1011100101 1101111101 1101100101 1011110101 1011011111 1111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, or, an' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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