This is an analysis of The Beast by Madison Julius Cawein.

Here is a tale for sportsmen when at table:
There was a boar, like that Atalanta hunted,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXXbXcXbcXb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10011101110 110111101010 1101101101010 0111011110 11011011011100 10011001110 111100101010 1101011010100 11010101010 0100110011 11100101110 01011101010 01010100010 11110111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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