This is an analysis of the poem The Little Dog's Day that begins with:
All in the town were still asleep,
When the sun came up with a shout and a leap.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd ceXX fded XXfX XeXeXbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 10111001101 001010111 0101110101 10110011111 101101111111 10101111011 1011100001011 101111000111110 01011101011 101000101000 0110111010100 110011111011 01111001001 10010010011101001 11111110001 111001001011 1100101001110 11010010111010 1100110111110 111010110010 11101001101 101101101001 11101100001011 1011111101 1010100101 1100100111 0101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he are repeated.
The author used the same words all, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word day at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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