This is an analysis of the poem Farmer Short's Dog Porter: A Tale that begins with:
Three Justices (so says my tale)
Once met upon the public weal. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbaXaaccddeeff ddgghhffddddcXdd bbiijjbb Xfffkkllbbhhee mm aabbbbff ddkkffddXhnnff hhiiggooddhh bbpX ddXq kknnffbbbbbbpX ggkk ppff nneeqq nnqqddffffffbbkk ddhXXffffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,8,14,2,8,14,12,4,4,14,4,4,6,16,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001111 11010101 11011101 11110101 11010111 01111100 11010101 11001101 11010101 11010111 11010101 11011101 10110111 10111101 11110111 01010101 11110101 0100100101 11110111 11110011 11110111 01011101 11010111 11011111 11110101 00110101 11010101 11010101 11010011 01111100 10111101 11011101 111010010 110101110 010101010 110111110 01011101 11110111 11101111 01010101 1 110100101 101010111 11011101 11010111 01010101 111101110 0100111110 010101010 011101010 11010111 01111101 11011111 01110101 01001101 11010101 110101001 11010111 11000101 01110101 11010101 11011101 11010111 11110101 110100111 110100101 111100001 11010111 11010001 01010001 11010101 11011101 11011001 11011101 11111111 01010111 01000111 010111001 11010101 11000101 110100011 111101111 11010111 11010101 01110001 11011111 11010101 11011101 11111101 111110101 11010001 11111101 110101010 010101010 010001010 010111111 11011111 01011111 110100101 11011101 10111101 11010101 01010101 11010101 11011101 11110101 10011111 110100101 100110101 01011101 010101110 111011111 0110101001 01010011 11010101 11010101 1101110010 110101010 1111101 11110101 11001111 11110101 11100101 01011101 11011101 10010111 10010111 10011101 01110101 00111101 10010111 110010101 11011101 11010111 110001010 010101010 11110101 11101001 10110111 110101101 11111101 110010101 110011111 101111101 11011101 11010111 01010011 11000101 11010111 10010101 01000101 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 155
- 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; would, and, dog, him, some, he, or, not, had are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, some, it are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
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