This is an analysis of the poem On The Skeleton Of A Hound that begins with:
Nightfall, that saw the morning-glories float
Tendril and string against the crumbling wall,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccbaddefggfhibbihjkeekjhkhhkhkdiidkdkilX kdgfbbfglmddml
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 10110101001 1011010011 0111010101 1001110111 1111110001 1111010101 1101010101 1001011111 010101001001 10001010111 1011110101 0101011101 0101110101 0101010101 11010101110 01011001010 0011010001 1001010101 1101011101 1101000101 0100010001 1001101111 0101111101 1001110101 1101110100 10010010111 1101110101 0101010101 1111010001 1101100111 1111101101 0101000101 0111011101 1101000101 0100100101 1100011011 1001011101 1001010001 0101010111 10110101010 1101010 101 1001010101 1101100111 0111101011 10110011101 11010010101 1001111101 1110010101 11010101110 0111010111 0101110001 0111010011 1101011101 11011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1169
- Average number of words per stanza: 215
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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, on, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words between, i, the are repeated.
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