This is an analysis of the poem The Bear Hunt that begins with:
A wild-bear chace, didst never see?
Then hast thou lived in vain. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb baba cdcd efef ghgX ieie jeXe bcbc kbkb ilil mhmh caca XhXh kckX mkmk kbkb jajX emem cncn cbcbXahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 111101 110101001 110011 11110101 110011 01011101 111101 11110111 110101 11110111 110111 01010101 110101 01110101 110101 11011101 110111 01010101 110111 01010111 111101 101111101 110110 10010101 110101 11011101 110111 01110111 111101 111111101 110101 11011100 010101 01110101 011001 11110111 010101 11010101 111101 11011101 110101 11011001 111111 01011111 110001 01110101 111101 01111101 111101 110010101 111111 11010111 110001 1011101110 110101 110010111 110001 11111101 0101010 11010101 110111 110101001 111111 11010101 111101 11111101 011111 11001101 110101 11000101 110100 011101001 011101 11010001 010101 01011111 110111 11110111 111111 11100111 111101 11111111 111101 01011111 111101 010110110 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; his, and, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Bear Hunt;
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