This is an analysis of the poem The Homely Man that begins with:
Looks as though a cyclone hit him—
Can't buy clothes that seem to fit him;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXd aaeeeeXf ggffhXhXXaaaaaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100111 11111011 10111110 11101010 10111010 11111010 1110101 0111101 11111101 00101011 11111010 1111110 10101110 10111010 1110101 1010110 11101010 11101110 11101010 10110110 11101110 10101110 1110101 1110100 10101011 11111011 10101011 10111011 11101110 10101110 1011001 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, 'em are repeated).
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- summary of The Homely Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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