This is an analysis of the poem I Started Early - Took My Dog that begins with:
I started Early - Took my Dog -
And visited the Sea -... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc debe XeXe dfcf XeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 110001 0110010 110111 11000101 010101 01010001 010101 11111101 111101 11110111 111101 11111111 110101 0101001 111101 11110101 110101 01110111 110101 01110101 111101 11000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; my, past, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word too at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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