This is an analysis of the poem That's The Man that begins with:
Unknown -a stranger in Antioch- the man from Edessa
writes and writes. And at last, there, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101010100 1111111 01010111 101100111110 111000011 01001110101 11101111 10110011100100 001101 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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