This is an analysis of the poem The Wise Dog that begins with:
One day there passed by a company of cats a wise dog.
And as he came near and saw that they were very intent and heeded...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aX aXXX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010001011 11111111101001110 1111 11010010010001111 10101110111111 10111011010100101 110 11011011001110 0101111011010101 1111111001111110 111111000011110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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