This is an analysis of the poem If God Is A Dog that begins with:
If God is a dog drowsing,
contemplating...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXX cXdeXXaXaXXffgfc hXgb Xhged
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100110 1010 01010100 00101001 111111 010 1111 11100 1111 110101 0111000 111101 010 010101 11011010 10101 110110 01111 1000101 100 1111 11001 1101110 1111101 11010 0101 110 101011 1 011 01
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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