This is an analysis of the poem The Man Who's Down that begins with:
IT is well enough to cheer for the brother who is up,
It is fine to praise the brother who has captured victory's cup;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00101011010101 0010101011101001 111111111011101 101110100010101 101110101111001 101110101010101 1010111010010101 101101101010101 101110101110101 11111011110111 101010100010101 101010111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, for, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word it is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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