This is an analysis of the poem The Hunter And His Dying Steed that begins with:
“Wo worth the chase. Wo worth the day,
That cost thy life, my gallant grey!”—Scott ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cdedXbXb ddXdfgfg cdddhcXc fccccbeb aidiXbab Xbabhafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 111111011 010110101 010101 11010101 101101 01001101 111101 11010111 010101 11011101 011101 11110111 110111 11111101 011101 11010101 110111 111111101 110101 11011101 010101 11110101 110001 11010101 110101 111101010 110111 11111101 110111 11010101 100111 110011101 111011 110111101 010101 01110111 111111 11110100 101111 11111111 111101 11011101 010111 11011111 011001 11111111 111111 11111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, my, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, and are repeated.
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