This is an analysis of the poem The Bad Squire that begins with:
The merry brown hares came leaping
Over the crest of the hill,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAb cdcd aefe ghgh hdhd aiai djXj klkl kjkj klhl gmdm gkkk fnfn fjdj aoao Xfgf omom XdXd gXgX glgl abAb XXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011110 1001001 101011110 100111 101110 11011111 011011010 110011011 01010110 10100111 11001011 1100111 11011010 11011101 1011011010 0100101 11001110 10110101 101001010 1100101 111110110 11111011 11100010 11101001 110001010 11100101 111111010 1011101 1011111011 1111101 11101111 11110111 111010011 101101 011110011 101101011 111010101 11110111 1110111010 1110101 11011010 111011011 101100101011 1011001 111001010 10100111 1110111111 1010101 11001101110 1101111 111111110 11111111 11001110 11001011 0110111110 1101101 1110111110 0110111 1110110110 0100111 11100011010 11001011 1111011010 01111011 101001110 0011101 11001110 1101101 101011010 1111101 111010110 1111111 1110010110 111101001 1010110010 0010110110 11101010 1110111 1111010110 11000001 101011110 100101 101011110 10100111 1001 01
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, of, blood, on, there's, to, in, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, there's, worse are repeated.
The author used the same words she, 'you, 'when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Bad Squire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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