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,…
Browse poems by Shel Silverstein
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
i