This is an analysis of the poem If You Are A Man that begins with:
If you are a man, and believe in the destiny of mankind
then say to yourself: we will cease to care... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbX caXbX cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0110110100100011 1101010101 0110011010100010 110110000101001 1111110 0011001000101 0000111111 101100110011001 110101001001101 101010 0101111101 11010 0101111101 011101011101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of If You Are A Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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