This is an analysis of the poem Hound Voice that begins with:
BECAUSE we love bare hills and stunted trees
And were the last to choose the settled ground,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXX cdcddbbefeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111101 1001010101 010001100101 11001000101 1101011101 1111110111 11011101110 0101111111 1111110011 1111000111 11001010101 1011010101 1101111101 1100110001 1111110101 1111010101 1101110101 10001011111 11000010101 1101110001 11010001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 86
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then are repeated.
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- summary of Hound Voice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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