This is an analysis of the poem Shooting Season that begins with:
IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND
The whole countryside deployed on the hills of heather, an army...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbdbaceaXbaXbaedXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010 0110101101010110 010 010101001 110011111010100 01110 11010010010 011111011110110 011 111101001 1000101101111101 011 11101101 1101001001110101 01 1011001010 111101011001011 111 1101010010 001010001001001000100 11 111010010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 872
- Average number of words per stanza: 157
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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