This is an analysis of the poem Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog that begins with:

ON his morning rounds the Master
Goes to learn how all things fare;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd dedeffee dgdXdddd hghgggii jkjkjjXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 1011111 10101010 1110101 1110111 1111001 111101001 0101111111 10101110 1110101 100101010 1011001 1011101 1010101 01011111 1111000101 10101110 1010111 10101110 0011101 1111011 11100111 11011101 1101110101 10111110 1010001 10111010 1010111 1110111 0010101 01010111 11010100101 00101110 1011111 10101110 1110101 1011111 1011111 11001001110 010101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; for is repeated.

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