This is an analysis of the poem Any Man Speaks that begins with:
I, after difficult entry through my mother's blood
And stumbling childhood (hitting my head against the world);...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXbXaXXXbX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1101001011101 11001110110101 11001001001001000 11010101010010 010111111111 110100111011 1111101011010 01101001010001 101001011111 11001111101 110010111101 101101101100 1101110101 1101110 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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