This is an analysis of the poem The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter that begins with:
The heart is a lonely hunter.
With a hoping its search for love, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXacdbXXAccddcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001010 00100111 101100010 110010 01011101 10110101 0010001 101000 01001010 101000101 110001 01000111 1010101001 111001010 00111101 100001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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