This is an analysis of the poem The Horrible History Of Jones that begins with:
Jones had a dog; it had a chain;
Not often worn, not causing pain;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXXcddeefXeeaaggbbXfXcXcgXhhiieeXbbbaaXbbbeeXbbaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 55,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 110111 110010111 01010101 10011110 110101 110100111 01010101 11010011 11010101 11010111 11010001 0110010100 0101001 11010101 1011010 011101 001100111 11011101 11110101 01011100 110001 11010101 01001101 01010111 11010111 11011101 11011 110101 11111111 01110111 01110101 1110111 11010011 11111101 11010000 11111001 10010101 111100101 0111001010 010101010 111011011 01111011 11011101 110100101 10011111 11010101 11000101 01010101 01011101 11010101 01000100 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 914
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, of, and, t are repeated.
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