This is an analysis of the poem First The Dog that begins with:
to Laika
...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXbcX XadbX eXfdgcg edbXfXaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,5,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010 11010101 11000111 10110101 01000111 10101010 10110101 11011010 11100101 10010111 0101001010 011101001 110101110 1111101 10010111 10011001 11101110 1101110110 110110010 101111011 1010011 1011010 100110010 11011101 1111010110 1011101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; we, on, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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