This is an analysis of the poem To Flush, My Dog that begins with:
Loving friend, the gift of one
Who her own true faith has run... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb aXdeed fggccX ccbhXb eefaaf ccgffg ccXiid gghaah jjkeek llXmmh ffneen cchaaa gghllh oXbccb jjaaaa aaonno cXhppa ooXfXf XnXjjdXeebaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1011111 111010 0110101 0110111 101010 1010101 1110110 101010 0110101 1010101 011010 1011100 1011100 100010 1011101 1110001 001010 1011101 1010101 101010 11100001 1011100 101010 1111101 1110111 100010 11100101 1010111 111010 1110101 1010111 111110 1011011 1001101 101010 1010101 0110101 111100 10101001 1111101 101110 1010101 0110101 111010 0110101 1011101 101110 1010101 1011101 101111 0110111 1010111 100011 1010101 1010101 10111 0110101 0010101 101010 1011111 1010101 101110 1110101 10100101 001010 1011101 0011111 101010 1110101 1010001 101110 0100101 1110101 111010 11110001 1010101 101110 1100101 1001100 101110 0110101 0110101 111110 1011111 1010101 101110 1111101 1110101 100110 1011101 1010111 101111 1011011 1010101 101011 1010111 1010010 111110 1110111 1111101 111010 10011001 1010101 011000 1101111 1111100 101010 1110101 1101101 111110 1011101 1011111 111010 101001 0101101 100110 1010111 0011101 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; leap, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words leap, no are repeated.
The author used the same words other, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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