This is an analysis of the poem To Get A Man that begins with:
This warld is a lottery, as ilk ane may ken;
There are prizes for women as weel as for men:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb Xbaa Xacc aaaX aXdX aaaX eedd XXXX XaXX bbaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010010011111 111011011111 111111011011 11101111111 1101011101 101111011111 101111011111 1110111110101 01111110110 11110111101 101011111101 111111111101 11111011111 1111110111001 1100111111011 101001111101 11011001111 101011111111 1111110101111 1010011110110 11111011111 111011111111 111011011111 1010111010100 01011011011 111101010101 011011011111 1110101111011 10101011110 110111111111 111011111101 111111111111 11101011111 11111011111 11111011001 1111111111010 1101111111 11101111001 111111111111 1110110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, for, i, and, my, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word though is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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