This is an analysis of the poem A Hunting Song that begins with:
Hunters, where does Hope nest?
Not in the half-oped breast,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcbc dedeaafgfghhhgghhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 1001101 1011 110111 0011110 0111 1001010 101111 1111010 101 1001010 01111 111101 111 11110 101101 101110 1111001 1011001 1001001 1011111 1001001 0011001 1011111 1011101 1011001 001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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