This is an analysis of the poem The Twa Dogs that begins with:
A Tale
'Twas in that place o' Scotland's isle,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aabbXc ddeeff ddggXXXXcc hhccii jjkkjjaa XXXXbbbbbX d XXXX kXXakkXX iiXXXXXdbXbb X XXjjeXll eeddmfXe d XXaajj gXXXnnaa eX X jjmm ffmm eeff XheekkXX eXbboo eeccaakkcc ffjjppddXX d mmcciimmaX gemXe eddeX bb X mmmm kkddXeddjj ddcc d cc mmeXeecccc XXaXXXhhk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,10,6,8,10,1,4,8,12,1,8,8,1,6,8,2,1,4,4,4,8,6,10,10,1,10,5,5,2,1,4,10,4,1,2,10,10,4,4,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 10111101 11011111 0101101 11010101 11101111 100010101 011111110 110101010 01010101 101111101 11011101 11010111 01101110 1010100110 11111101 01011111 1111110100 1111001010 11110111 110111011 111111011 1111011011 010101010 010101010 110111111 1011111 10110101 11111111 11011101 11010111 010111 11110101 0111011 11111101 0111101 11010101 111101110 110111100 110111110 111100110 1101001010 110100010 01110101 01011101 110101010 01011010 10 11010101 111111111 11010111 11110110 1110011 01011101 11011110 01010101 11011101 1101101 11111101 010101001 1101001110 110101010 110101110 110111110 11101111 11011111 110011010 110101010 10110101 01010101 111111110 110111010 1 11011110 01010001 110101001 10010111 10011101 011111 11101101 01110111 111111010 111111110 111101110 111111110 110111011 110100010 110111010 110101100 10 110111100 111111000 111101110 110101110 11110111 11110101 11011111 110011101 11010110 11110101 11110111 11010111 111111110 110111110 111111110 110111010 1 11110111 11001101 11010101 01110101 111101110 110111010 110111010 011101010 01010111 1111101 01011111 11011101 11101110 110101010 11011101 01011101 11110011 11010111 111110010 11101010 11110001 110100101 110101010 110101010 11111101 01111001 11010101 11011101 01011101 110101001 01011101 11011110 0111101 011010101 111011010 111111010 10111111 11011101 110010001 11010101 11011111 110100101 110110010 010111010 110101000 110101100 10 111101010 110111110 110110111 110111111 11011010 1001001010 11000101 01101101 01011101 01111101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01011111 110101010 110101110 11011010 011011110 110101010 110100100 110110010 110101110 1 11110101 111100101 11110101 11011111 11110111 11101101 011101010 010101010 111101010 111111010 011101110 110101110 110001111 010111011 101111010 111101110 1111010110 010111110 10 110111111 010111100 01111111 11011101 11110111 111111110 11010111 11110011 11111010 111010010 110111010 010101010 01010101 010101110 0101101 01011101 11001101 11111111 110101110 111101010 111001110 11101110 101111110 110011010 11011111 01110101 011101010 110101100 111111110 111101010 010101010 111101110 111101110 111111100 11011111 110101010 11111101 11010101 110101010 1111010010 110101110 100101010 10011101 11010101 011101101 01110101 11111111 011100111 111101001 01011101
- Amount of stanzas: 44
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 246
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; his, he, an', as, their, guid, to, or, them are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whiles, he, he'll, the, to, or, their are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, them, it are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word them at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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