This is an analysis of the poem The Train Dogs that begins with:

Out of the night and the north;
Savage of breed and of bone, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abccb abddb Aeffe agccg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001101 1001101 101110101 100100101 1100101 1001001 1011101 101100101 101101101 0100101 1001101 1001011 100110101 010010101 10010001 1001101 1011011 100110111 110111111 0101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Train Dogs;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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