This is an analysis of the poem The Dog that begins with:
Dream on! Your golden eyes turn narrower
And duller as you watch the snowflakes clinging...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaX XaXa bXbacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011100 11011101110 01011101010 1001110110 1111111101 11111111010 0101011101 11010101110 0100110001 0111010110 1001011101 11111101010 1101010011 01001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; for is repeated.
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- summary of The Dog;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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