This is an analysis of the poem When Nature Wants A Man that begins with:
When Nature wants to drill a man
And thrill a man,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbac cXdeec cddceebb aaaaffffe eeedXeebbggeeh hheee aaaabbiieeeeffbbbbaa jjeecc hhhiXiaabbXbbaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,9,14,5,20,6,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 1101 1101 11010101 010101 1110101 001111101 110111 1010101 1110010 1110001 11101111 10101101 001010111010101 101010101110101 1111101 1001101 11101110 1010010101 110010101 010101 1011101 11010101 1101 1101 11010101 010100 1110101 1110101 0011111 01101011 11111011 11111111 10100011 1110101 1110010 01101011 10101011 101010101011101 1110101 1110 1110 11100111 11111011 1010101 1111101 1110001 110000111 00101011 11100011 11010101 1101 1101 11010101 0101001 1110101 1010011 1110111 11111011 10101011 11101 1011 111010101010001 11100001 10101010 10101110 10101110 10101110 1010011 1110101 1010101 1010001 10101011 101001101 11101111 1010101 1010101 1110101 1111101 10111110 10101100 10101010 1010111 1011001 1010100101010101 11111100010001 1010101 1110101 10101010 11101010 1110101 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; man, she, and, him, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, how, when, makes are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man, him, it are repeated).
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