This is an analysis of the poem The Hound Of Heaven that begins with:
I fled Him down the nights and down the days
I fled Him down the arches of the years... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcabdXeef XafgcchHcaabi ibbfcjfehcehiieHdXef ccaafkkkallaadaaX iiXaaXaXiXiXabbieee emamaXffdndXef dffjmlaafaalmgbXeeeXcceeeeXbfc fcaajoiXXcXen eXfccfpecpceeeffmaaeggooXeXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,20,17,19,14,30,13,28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 1111010000 1111010111 0111100101 11011101010 1101111101010 1001010111 01111101010 101001110011 01001010100 111011 110101 1101111001 110111110010100 100110000110100 1111011101 1111101101 111101 10110100101 0100011100 111001111001 0101000111 1100111001 1011011111 10010111010 011001 11010100101 0111101110 0001010 1111011111 11010100101 1101001100 0101110001 110010111001 0111110011 10010101001 11011101 01100001 1101010 11001001010 1001010101011 111001111001 10100111011 01001010100 11010011010111 1101111101 1111110111 010111 1101010101 11010101 1111111011 1111111101 010101 1101001101 111101010 101111100101 1111101 11101010 1000110101010 10000001110 10101001 10111010 0010101010010 1011 10110010111 101010100 111011001010101 1110101 11001110 11111 1110 10100111110101 001011100 11100010 1110100101011100 1100101 11011100110 10111010 1011010101 0101100111 111101 1101001 111111111101 01110111011 111111101 11110111 110111111100 1011110111 1001111 111100101 1110110100 10010100111101 111101010011 01001010100 111111011111 1110111011 1011111001110111 1101 1101011 111000100 1110101 1101011101 00110001110 11010010 1111011 1001 11010110100 1101110101 1111011101 1111110101 1101101010 1010100 1001100011001 1101010111 1101011101 11010111000 10110101 010110001 100110010101 11010100 111101111100 1101010010101 1111010101 01110111110 0011110010101001 1 101000 0111011101 1101110101 1101100101 00110000100 110101010 1101111010101 11111100 111110 0101100101 0111110101 1011110011110 111010100101 101101 11101 1101110101 101111 100111 111111111 110101 10011011101 10111110111 1101110100 111100 0111010101 101101 11010010111 1111010101 111101 1111011111 1111 1111110011 1111011011 1111111 111111 111111 011101 1001011000 1101010 1111110 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 741
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 167
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; down, i, fled, of, him, to, their, with, or, and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, let, my, ah are 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 weed is repeated).
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- summary of The Hound Of Heaven;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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