This is an analysis of the poem This Dog that begins with:
Every morning this dog, very attached to me,
Quietly keeps sitting near my seat...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdadefgXghgahgfcbgXeagg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001100101 100110111 11001 11010100 0101010111 101101001010 011110 000101010 111011 011001101 011 1010110101 011111010101 10011101 001111001 11101010 01000110 110101 10110 110101001 101010101 010010110101 101010001001 0101010 10011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 807
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
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