This is an analysis of the poem Sought By Trained Blood Hounds that begins with:

Those who had been already declared,
Mentally incompetent for being 'too' aware....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdXded fadfgbgaac dXeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001001 1000100110101 1011010 111001001001 101101 1111101110 01110111001 01010010010 00101110010101 1010001 1010010111 001000101101 111000101110001 111101010010 010011001011 10101010000101010 01101011010 0110101010 00110010101110 101101010 1010111 10100101 010001 101111010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 346
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to is repeated.

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  • summary of Sought By Trained Blood Hounds;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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