This is an analysis of the poem The Man Hunt that begins with:
THE woods stretch wild to the mountain side,
And the brush is deep where a man may hide, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee ff gg Xd aa cc hh XX dd ff bb gX ffXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 011100101 1010110111 111010101 0011111101 111010111 1100100101 111100111 111101111 1110110101 1100110101 1111100101 00100110111 011100101 001111101 01001101110 10100100101 1100100101 011100101 1011100101 1011100101 010100101 00111001001 011010111 111100101 010110101 10101001011 010100111 110101101 111101101 111101111 010100111 111100101 010111111 101010111 011110101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and are repeated.
The author used the same words they, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Man Hunt;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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