This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet - To Tartar, A Terrier Beauty that begins with:

Snowdrop of dogs, with ear of brownest dye,
Like the last orphan leaf of naked tree ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbbcbdbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001010101 1011010101 1100110111 01010110001 11010100101 1101010101 01011000101 1111110101 0101011001 11001011101 1101101100 0011110101 0111010101 1000011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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 is repeated.

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