This is an analysis of the poem The Depredating Hen that begins with:
Of all the things in nature that afflict the sons of men,
There is nothing that I know of beats the depredating ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX ab c cd e aXa d e eab ad XX a X Xa ffb g gc f aeXda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,2,1,3,1,1,3,2,2,1,1,2,3,1,2,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101010101 10101110101000 1 011011101001100 1 111011101010101 110111011011 10 11010111110001 1111101100101010 1101010100010001 1101110111011 1 1101011110101 1101010111111100 11001111110110 1 111111011011 10 1111110111110 1 1101110111010 10 011110011110001 11101100110101 101011010110101 1111010111010 1 1111000111011 1101110111111 10 1111010111101 111111111111 11 111110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, she, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, i are repeated.
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- summary of The Depredating Hen;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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