This is an analysis of the poem Hot Digitty Dog that begins with:
Hot digitty dog! Now, ain't it queer,
I've been abroad for over a year;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdd eeffbbggXg cXaaggbbhh ggieddggii jjddggkkll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 110011101 100111001 10110111 11100101 11101111 101001001 11100101 11100111 111100101 011110101 110011101 110010101 111011110 101001010 100100111 10100101 110101011 10110101 11010010011 111101101 110010111 10111111 10000111 111101101 1001101111 11100101 001011101 0010110101 00101011001 10100100111 10111111 1111101111 1101010111 1110101001 1110101101 110101011 1110111001 10010111 10110101 1111100101 111100101 11111101 111101101 110010111 1110111111 110101111 1100100111 1110011101 111111111001 11001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 372
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words laughin', and are repeated.
The author used the same word hot at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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