This is an analysis of the poem Over The Hills that begins with:
The old hound wags his shaggy tail,
And I know what he would say: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCB XbcB dbCB dbCB abCB XbcB cbcBXcbcB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 1111111 010011111 1001101 1111110101 110111 110011111 1001101 10111101 110011 110011111 1001101 01010101 110101 110011111 1001101 01011111 110111 010011111 1001101 11010101 0100101 1110100111 1001101 0101100101 110101 1110100111 1001101 0111101001 01011011 011011111 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, away are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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