This is an analysis of the poem Man The Conqueror that begins with:

To the home of primal Nature, to her woodlands wild and bright,
Came a race of alien folk,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcaccX cdcdefeX fgfgeeeX fhfhifif
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 001010100011111 10101001 10101010011001 0010101 111010111011111 1010101 10101010 1111101 1010111 001010111011111 1110111 111110100010101 1011101 101010101010101 1010101 111111111010111 1010101 001010101011101 1010101 111001111110111 0011001 101100101010001 11100101 111110101010001 0010111 101010101010101 1011101 1110101010100111 10101001 101010100010101 1010101 101111101011111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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