This is an analysis of the poem The Hunting Horn Of Chalemagne that begins with:
SOUND not the Horn!--the guarded relic keep:
A faithful sharer of its master's sleep: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdd ddeebb ff gghheeggbbff ffff iijjkkkkiiccddcccc ddfX ff llhhbbkkeebbccXggggff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,2,12,4,18,4,2,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 0101000101 01010000101 1111010111 0101111101 01001010111 1101010101 1111011101 1101110111 01001000101 1101000101 0101010101 10100010001 1011010101 0101110101 1101000101 1011110111 1001010001 1101101001 10011100101 0101010101 100110110011 1101000101 11010010111 1111100101 1011110101 1011110101 1111000111 1011010101 11010111001 11110100101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010111 11000010111 1001011101 11010100001 01001101001 01010101001 1101010101 1101110101 0101101101 1101010011 0101010101 0101011101 10011100101 01010100101 1001110001 10111010111 1101011101 1101110101 1111110101 1101010101 1111110101 11101011101 1111011111 1111010101 1101111101 1111110111 1100101111 1101011101 11001010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001110101 11001010101 11110100101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010001 0101010101 01010100101 1101010111 0101110111 11010100101 01010011001 1101010101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 358
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; this, with, to, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, this, of are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word horn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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