This is an analysis of the poem The Wild Hunt that begins with:
When they thought that Denmark's king
Soundly in the graveyard slumbered, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bcbX dedX dffd gXgh gigi feef jfjf egeg dccX jhjh kiki eXje afaf lele ddXd mXmf chci edde gdgXXlele
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 100011100 101001000 1011100 10111110 1111101 00100010 10101110 1101101001 001111010 00101001111 001101010 1010101 001001010 100011010 0010100 10011010 1010010 10101110 1010001 110110111 01001110 110101101 01010110 1010101 10111110 10001010 1110111 10101011 1010111 10110011 1011101 0111000111 1101010 11111101 0100110 10101101 10101010 01101010 1010100 10101110 10010111 10101110 1010001 01010101 11001010 1101001001 0101010 1010111 11011010 00111010 1001101 11111010 1110101 10101010 1000111 010110111 1011110 110010111 1111010 1010101 11001010 10111010 1100101 101110011 01101100 10111011 0010101 01110101 100011 1011101 0101010 1010101 10101010 00101010 1010101 11111010 0010111 110001001 11111010 111011111 11100010 010101101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; of, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word save is repeated.
The author used the same word over at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Wild Hunt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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