This is an analysis of the poem To An Echo On The Banks Of The Hunter that begins with:
I hear thee, echo! And I start to hear thee
With a strange shock, as from among the hills ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbacadedefffffffgfg aeaefbfbhihi bbgbXbbhhbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110111011 0011100101 111000011011 1101100101 11000011101 01010101011 1110001111 11000101011 10110101001 1011010001 1101111011 1111 0111011111 010100101111 10110100101 11011001001 0111011101 0111110011 1101000101 1101010111 1111111100 1001 1111010001 0111111101 0111010101 0011001111 0001111101 110010011010 11000110001 11010101110 1101011111 110011101110 1101000101 11110 1101110101 1001010101 1101111101 0111110101 0101110111 1101111101 01011101 11010101 111111 0111110101 010001 0111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 677
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, like are repeated.
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