This is an analysis of the poem Gordon Cumming - The Lion Hunter that begins with:
Some thirty years ago, in conversation with an old sea
captain who had visited or voyaged to all quarters of the...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcbdeXcfcbfdgebbfhibhibgX aXhhccXgcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001010100111 1011100110011000 1110101000100001 1000111110101 111011011011001 101111100101011 1010010101101100 10111101010100 110101001010 110100100010101 011111100111 1110010010010100 01011010010011 101110010110001 10010001011010 101011101100 1010100101101001 1001001101111101 01100101010111 01011001001010011 101011001010101 10010010100010 10101000110010010 011010110101100 0110100110011011 10100100101010100 010101000111110 11011010 10100110 10101010 11010111 010010101 101101001 11010101 0110101010001001 10010010101110 1001000100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word major is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines was is repeated).
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