This is an analysis of the poem Mad Day In March that begins with:
Beaten like an old hound
Whimpering by the stove, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcadd ecfcfeaa agagaaff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 100101 110101 110101 010101 111111 111011 110111 110011 010111 010101 110101 1101101 0101001 111011 110101 110011 110100 010111 101100 010111 101101 010101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we are repeated.
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