This is an analysis of the poem Lines On A Canadian Hunter that begins with:
Of Kentucky's great hunter bold,
Old Daniel Boon, oft tales are told ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbd eebb ffbb ggbb ggbd hhbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101101 11011111 0111111 11011101 10011010 10110110 11110101 0111010 01111111 11010111 11010101 11011111 01011111 11010101 01011101 10010101 11010101 1010101 01011001 11011101 11111011 11011010 1110101 0110110 10010111 11011111 11010111 01011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; to is repeated.
The author used the same words in, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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