This is an analysis of the poem The Lucky Man that begins with:
Luck had a favor to bestow
And wondered where to let it go....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd dd ee bX ff bb Xf gg XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010001 11010101 11011111 11010101 10110001 10110111 10110101 01111101 11110001 11011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11111101 11011101 01010111 11111111 01110101 110111010 11000111 111100101 11100101 01011110 11010001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 71
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; not, he'd, his, and are repeated.
The author used the same words 'i, he'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Lucky Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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