This is an analysis of the poem The Man In The Bowler Hat that begins with:

I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXbbc addX eecX fXffff X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,4,6,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010010001 011111100101 0111110101 011101000100100010 1011 1101110001001 110110011111 0110101110111 110110110 11011101011 111010101001 0111010111 1101 11011101010 01011101110 1101101 0101 110101001 010111 010111 010001 0111 11011100101 01011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; man, who, and, too, i are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Man In The Bowler Hat;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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