This is an analysis of the poem Old Dog Tray that begins with:
THE morn of life is past,
And ev'ning comes at last;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbb ccbccbd aabeebd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 110111 01101001101 010111 010101 1001111 101111010110110111010111010101011111 011111 110111 01101111101 110111 110101 11011111 10 110101 011111 111111110111 111101 110101 01011111 10
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, dog, old, have are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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