This is an analysis of the poem One's Experience Is The Best Teacher that begins with:

You have a well groomed and beautiful dog.
Does it bite? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XaXXX XX XaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,2,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101111001 101 10111011 11011010011 1010100101111 110100010 111111101 1111 110110 111 11010110 001111 11101 1010000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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  • summary of One's Experience Is The Best Teacher;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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