This is an analysis of the poem Dow's Flat that begins with:

Dow's Flat. That's its name;
And I reckon that you... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcb bdbded bfgfXf hdhdad ijijkj lkdkk cjcjj kckclc mfmfnf ljljej dbcbjg fnfnXn dfXfnf clcXadXjjjjbj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,5,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 111011 101001 111011 11000110101110111 1 011101 101111 11001 101101 1111101111111100 1 11011 101101 11111 111111 1110101110101011 11 11101 111011 111101 1110001 1110100101011110 01 011101 101111 111101 101101 1011011010111111 11 101101 111001 1001101 111101 111101111011001001 101101 101101 101101 101101 1100110100010010001 11011 101011 01111 001101 00101110101100100 1 11001 111101 11101 101011 101001110111101 011 01101 001011 101111 101101 11101001010111100 11 11011 111101 11001 11111 11111011100111 101 101001 101001 111111 111011 11101111101110 11111 011001 101101 111011 101011 111001001101001 101 11011 101000 111011 111000 1110010111010111 1001 11111 001011 10111 111101 11101111011101 111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to, his, and 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 thet's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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