This is an analysis of the poem I Heart Your Dog's Head that begins with:

I'm watching football, which is odd as
I hate football...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcadefbcghaaia jgaahkkdafXblkaklkhXi Xhhahmbkdgkajel cXmbfinccn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,21,15,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111011 1111 001010110000101 1111101 0110001010101 010010110010101010 111101011101 1100110100 110101 10101110110111 1001011100 0010100010 1101 10101011100101 11010011 111111 11010110010 11111111010101 1110010 1110011110100 01001010010 01011101010 010011 101001001000110 100101101010 110111100111 010100010010 1111 101010010101 0100 10111100101110 101011001001011 11010011 0101011110 1100111101 110101011011110 1101010101100001010 1111001 11100101100 0101001101011 00101101 01110100011101101 01110101 1111001100110011 11100110101000 0101010011 0111010101010111 100111001000100 010011011111 0111011110 01011 011101110110 001011101010011 001010 10101100001011001 0010011010 011010010001110 110011 1010101110 01001110111011101 11101011 11011110111 11001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 693
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, they, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is is repeated).

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  • summary of I Heart Your Dog's Head;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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