This is an analysis of the poem The Wild Huntsman that begins with:
Thy rest was deep at the slumberer's hour
If thou didst not hear the blast... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaBcc dedebb dfdfbb gdgdcc dedebB cccchh ihihcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010010 0111101 00101001010 1011101 1010010111 101101 011100101 1110101 1011100101 11100101 1010100101 0110101 010110101 10100101 101110101 00100101 1010100111 1010101 001010111 1010101 1010111001 0010101 101000101 0011101 01010111 1010101 10100110101 10100101 10111000101 1011101 011100101 1010001 1010110101 0010111 1010110101 10100101 011110111 110101 101011101 1010001 1011010111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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