This is an analysis of the poem A Mysterious Naked Man that begins with:

A mysterious naked man has been reported
on Cranston Avenue. The police are performing...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacbXaXXdebdXacdcdfXcdeXfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010010110010 1101010011010 010010100101110 111010111101010 0100 11110010110100 0100 1011110010010 111110101110 1010100110101 001001001101 0101101110111 0101010110 100111010 11010101110111 111010 010100010 100100101 0100101011101010 011010 11010100010001 1010010 1101010 11111001 1100111001 11011101 11 110011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1046
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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