This is an analysis of the poem Good To Hide, And Hear 'Em Hunt! that begins with:

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Good to hide, and hear 'em hunt!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX aaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0011101 10001 011010 011010 001111 10111 111011 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 69
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The author used the same word good at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tell is repeated).

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