This is an analysis of the poem Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog that begins with:
Most of the time he worked, a sort of sleep
with a purpose, so far as I could tell....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabcdefcdghXXXbXehciXagdfXXiXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110101 0010111111 11100101 00101011101 0111011 010100100 1010111101 11011011 110101011 01011101 010111110100 111010101 0110111101 0111111101 1010101110 111111001 1001111101 111101 0100111111 110111111 101001011 1101110 1101110101 111101010100 11011011 11111101 1110011001 11010011110 1010101111 011101111 010101011111 0101001111 10011011010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1255
- Average number of words per stanza: 259
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i are repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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