This is an analysis of the poem Foxhound Puppies that begins with:

Great big lolloping lovable things!
Rolling and tumbling on every lawn,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababAabacacAacdedeAaefcfcAacbabaAaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001001 10110011001 101101111 100100111 1110 01010 101100101 101101111 100101001 101101101 100110101 1110 01010 110101101 100110101 100110111 101110111 1011011001 1110 01010 1101011001 101101101 110101101 1010110111 111110101 1110 11010 111100101 101100101 110111101 1110010111 100111101 1110 11010 110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 196
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, your are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines puppies is repeated).

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