This is an analysis of the poem The Man In The Glass that begins with:
When you get what you want in your struggle for self
and the world makes you king for a day...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dbdb efef Xcfc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111011011 101111101 11001011110 11111101 100011011011 11001111 010110101011 001101001 11011101101 11101001 101001111001 011111001 101001101101 110111001 111111001001 001001011 1110111011 0111110111 111001001001 1011001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, and are repeated.
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