This is an analysis of the poem If Chihauhaus Were Not Chihauhaus that begins with:
If chihauhaus were not chihauhaus,
They'd be just called little dogs......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc XX dX XX ddaca XdX XddeX X f X dg dXX hdheXa X dbgfb XbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,2,2,5,3,5,1,1,1,2,3,6,1,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001100 10011101 1 11101 1010 1110101 1 0100 1 10 11 1111001 11001001 10110011101 1111111 1 110010101 1110101 1101 11101101101 0001001 101 1100010 1110 111 11 1 11110 100101001 1101010001010 101 1 111 01 1101 1111110101 1101 1101 1 01100 1011010010 1111 11101 1 11 1111001011 11
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 61
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'tabbies' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word 'tabbies' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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