This is an analysis of the poem Hounds! that begins with:
There is music on disc and on wireless,
Band-music, dance-tunes for the tireless, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcccbdddcccdeebaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111110 1101110100 11001101 1010010010 110110010 110110010 11011101 110110110 1101100010 11011101 0110010010 011010010 0110011010 101001111 110110010 111011010 11011101 1011011011 1010110011 010110010 11001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; music is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, what, no are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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- summary of Hounds!;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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