This is an analysis of the poem The Average Man that begins with:
MINE is a song of the average man
Who has been on earth since the world began!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaA ccaaddaA eeaaffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001001001 1101110101 111111111 111101101 110111101 110100101 010101111 1101001001 110111101 1000101101 110110101 110101111 1010100101 1011100101 0100101111 1101001001 0100110111 110101101 010101101 110010101 111110101 010110101 1110100111 1101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; him, find, you'll, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you'll, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word man at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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