This is an analysis of the poem The Old Bark Hut that begins with:
In an old bark hut on a mountainside
In a spot that was lone and drear ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcabdbaefegadaabcbdgdgbchcidcdacjciiciagcgikXkccgcadjdlbXbiamadcaXeghgcmgmhfgfgananaiagcXcgiaiggggchXhhafalkfkmcgcabdbbnanbabaacicgbabcbXbbagakcacggXgbmamcbib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 160,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111110101 00111111 010111101 100101 01110101 100111 10110111111 100101 10101110101 100101 110100111 1110101 101110101 0110111 111110111 01101101 0101111011 11111 011011101 1101011 1111001011 010111 101011101 0111101 111110101 11101001 10110100101 0100101 10110110101 1101001 11111101 11101111 0111001001 11001001 1101101011 11111001 1001001101 110101 11010101 001011101 10010101 1110111 1011101101 10101101 0111001011 11111111 1111101011 1101001 1111100101 11101001 100101001 1011111 11111101 110101 101110101 1110101 1101101010 111011011 101010010 101111001 111100110 10111111 10101101111 11101111 1111100011 101011001 11110110101 11110101 110100101 11001101 1110101101 111111001 1011110101 11111 111101101 1111101 11110010011 001011011 11101110101 111001011 11100111001 1001101 11100111101 11101001 10101110101 0100101 1010101101 0111101 0110101011 110111 1011010101 1100101 101101101 100101 11100100101 01101010 110101101 11101101 11111100101 11101101 100010101 000111 10101101100 110101 01001001001 11001101 1011010111 111111 1101101110 01101101 0011110101 111111001 1010101101 1110111 111011101 1110101 0110101101 1101101 110110111 1111011 1011101011 1111101 111001111 11111011 10110100101 1101101 111111101 1101111 100100011001 111001001 0111001001 110101101 11101001111 11100101 1010100111 01011111 1010101101 01011001 1011110100 11111001 1111100101 1111001 11011111 110101 111011101 10110101 111111111 0111111 10011111 111111 00100110101 10111101 10101100111 10111001 110100101 1111011 010100101 11001001 10101100101 1100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6094
- Average number of words per stanza: 1189
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; you, s, and, as, he, his, in, to, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, out, and, as, the, he are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase free connects the lines.
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