This is an analysis of the poem This Mongrel Witnessed that begins with:
From the shores of Danish harbors,
I live my Viking past....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXaX cdXcXbd ee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101010 111101 11101011010 1111 11010 1101110 1111101 111001101100 1010111110 01001011110 01010100100 111111101010 011011011011 0101001 1010100001 010001001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; as, they, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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- summary of This Mongrel Witnessed;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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