This is an analysis of the poem A Dog Has Died that begins with:
My dog has died.
I buried him in the garden...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abb cdeafghXiX XbibjkceeXfX faaalbfbkfg ifXfddfff ijjd ah ld X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,10,12,11,9,4,2,2,1,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1111 11010010 10010101 1111111 111100101 01101011 1100100011001 0101010001 1101010 101001011010 110100101110 111111010 100111010 1111010111 01010010 111010 010111100101 01000100 101000101 01110001111 0101010 110111011 1011001101 110110111 11010101 11110111 101001011 0010010 01011011101 1100111101 1011111011 1111011 0011011101 1011101 1111101001 11010 11101111001 111010101001 00101001010 101001101 1110111001 1001000110 110011001 0010111 10100101 101010 1101110010 01000100 011010 11101111111 1111110010110 111111101 1111000 010001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; his, for, me, joyful, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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