This is an analysis of the poem The Truce Of The Bear that begins with:
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go
By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale below.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccBb bbaa ddee ffgg eebb ffhh bbii aabb jjaX iidX ffgg fX fXkk BX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001110110111 1011100100101 101101101110 1001110100101 10100110101001 100110111100101 10110010101101 1011101010111101 101010110111101 111101010111101 111110101111101 11110101101001 101011010111111 110010100111101 1101110111111 11001011110111 100010111001101 1101010110101 1010110100101 1110010111101 1011001010100101 1111100101110001 11010010111101 1101010101111101 1001010011101 1001000110101 11101010101111 111110101010101 100110110101101 111111101111101 101100110011111 01011111011101 10010110101101 10110101101001 11111101111001 11110010010101001 1011100100100101 1111100101111101 1001110111111 1111111011101110 11100101011011 10011101101101 101110010101111 11010110110101 1011111010000101 111110101100111 11111100100111 111011100010101 101111010011101 1001010010010010 101001101001101 100111011010110 1001100101001101 1011011100101 10110010101101 10011010101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and, knew, his, when, he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words two, when are repeated.
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- summary of The Truce Of The Bear;
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