This is an analysis of the poem Fishers Of Men that begins with:

Long, long ago, He said,
He who could wake the dead...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab b ccbb ddXX eedd eeff ggbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 111101 110101 1101 111111 101101 101101 1101 111101 111101 110111 1001 101111 100101 101100 0111 111011 111111 111011 0101 1101001 0011001 111101 0100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 84
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words only, and, was are repeated.

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  • summary of Fishers Of Men;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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