This is an analysis of the poem The Brewer's Dog that begins with:
The brewer's dog is abroad, boys,
Be careful where you stray,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcdad aeXefgfg dXeXhicihjXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 010111 01110010 1110111 01000010 11111001 11111010 010001 0111010 0010111 1010011110 1010101 0101110 101101 11110010 10110101 11111010 1110101 1111110 0100101 11101010 011111 1101011 0010111 1011010 1111111 10111110 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; you is repeated.
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