This is an analysis of The Hunter by Shel Silverstein.

I have fought against the poodle with his gory, deadly paws;
I have faced the fearsome kitten, wild and bony,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb fgfg Xdgd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 111010100010101 111010101110 11110100010101 0010000101010 110100100110101 1111010001 101110100111001 11100110101 11101000011110101 101010111110 11010101011001 101000100010 111000100110001 11101011111 111000101111101 11101010111 101011101010101 1011110111 111111100110011 1101011101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and, i, have

Anaphora

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