This is an analysis of the poem The Hunter Of The Prairies that begins with:
Ay, this is freedom!--these pure skies
Were never stained with village smoke:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbcbc dedefgfg ghghcaca icicbaba fbfbicic jbjbdedeXababajaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010111 01010101 01011101 01011110 10110111 10110111 11110111 00110111 11010101 110000101 010101011 110101111 010100011 01001101 01011101 01010111 11010111 00110101 01111101 11000101 01011111 01010111 10010101 100010101 01110111 11110111 111100001 01111111 11010111 11011111 1010101101 11011101 010101111 01010001 100100101 01010101 110011101 11110101 11010101 111111011 1011011 11001101 01010001 11010101 11010111 11110101 110100111 11011111 11111101 10111101 11111101 01011101 11111101 101011101 11011101 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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, in, flames are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, who are repeated.
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