This is an analysis of the poem The Stricken Hart that begins with:
The stricken hart had fled the brake,
His courage spent for life's dear sake.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd aaaXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 01011111 11010101 01011101 01010111 01011111 110101001 01110101 11011101 11110101 01010101 11111101 001010101 11100011 11110101 111111010 110111110 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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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