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

Through woods the Spanish moss makes gray,
With deeps the daylight never reaches,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc eeee bdbd ebXb cfcf Xgag hehe didi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010111 010111010 01010101 1101010 111100110 11011101 1111001011 110101 01111101 01010111 011100001 110111 011101001 11110111 01110101 110001 11010111 11111101 111011000 111111 10010101 01011101 01111111 100101 10011100 01001001 01110001 100101 11110101 11111101 01111101 111101 10011111 01100111 11010111 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; in, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Egret Hunter;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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