This is an analysis of the poem I'M Not Into Dirty Dogfights that begins with:
If this isn't what you're fishing for a dogfight,
Then why you wanna keep barking at me? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAC DBdaXda EAF EAFDddXABACDB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,3,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000011101011 1111011011 101101101011 1011111010111 111011100 11010011 01001011 110111110 1100100 11001 0111101 1011110001 0100 01001 1011110001 0100 01001 111011100 110100 01001011 000011101011 1111011011 101101101011 1011111010111 111011100 11010011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; not, i'm are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'm is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- Analysis of Is It Or Is It 'Not' About The Work?
