This is an analysis of the poem Yonder He Goes! that begins with:
Always our fathers were hunters, lords of the pitiless spear,
Chasing in English woodlands the wild white ox and the deer, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccbXddbXddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111100101001001 10010110111101 100101111001011 101010010100110111 110100100111011 100100100111001 11101110110111 1111110010110111 01001001001001001 11101011110011011 1110101111001001 0001001001101011 11010101101001 110100101101011 10100101100101111 11011011001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1057
- Average number of words per stanza: 203
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, for, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fourteen, not are repeated.
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