This is an analysis of the poem On A Dog that begins with:
Thy happy years of deep affection past,
Cartouche! our faithful friend, rest here—at last.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabX aabbXX bbccccbb ddcXcaaa Xaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010101 1011011111 1111011111 1111110101 11111111010 01111111100 11110111001 1101011011 1111010101 0101010101 0101111101 1110010100100 1111011111 1101011101 11110101001 1111111101 10110011101 1110010101 1011111101 1101111111 11010101010 011100001110 1101010011 1101010100 1100010101 1101010101 1101011101 0100010101 1100110111 1101010101 11001111111 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, and, or, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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