This is an analysis of the poem The Rats that begins with:

The Rats
The hunter’s moon cuts straight through the farmyard....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bXbc XXde edca X X XXXX cXcX fXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01 0101111011 001101101 01010010101 10101110101 1010010111 1010101101 1101 01001110111 111001111 10101101 100111 0011101011011 01011010 110 01111101 1101010010 110010101 110110110 110101011 111001010 1011101 1100111100 1111101111 1101110 111111 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, und are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, and, und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ratten at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Rats;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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