This is an analysis of the poem My Dog's My Boss that begins with:
Each day when it's anighing three
Old Dick looks at the clock,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababab cdcdcd eaeaeX afafaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101001 111101 11011101 011011 10010101 110111 11110111 1111010 11110001 0111010 10110101 0100010 11110101 100111 11011111 110101 111111011 111110 110111001 110101 11011111 111001 11010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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