This is an analysis of the poem First Shot that begins with:
I said I was hunting deer. I knew the trails, the split tracks and pellets of shit; circles
where they bedded down together. I faced a buck...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bbb XbcX Xcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110111010111100110 111010101101111111011 111101111101 110110100101111010101111 1111110001101010101010 11111010111011011101 1101000100101110001110 10111001111101101111 110011111111001011001 11111011011111011111111 11011011111111010101 11100111011011011101111 1011111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 82 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, her, had, it, my, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 think is repeated).
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- summary of First Shot;
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