This is an analysis of the poem Tiger--Tiger! that begins with:
What of the hunting, hunter bold?
Brother, the watch was long and cold.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 1000111110 100101101 10011001010 100101111 10001011110 100111101 1001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
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