This is an analysis of the poem The Newspaper Man that begins with:
Bit of a priest and a bit of sailor,
Bit of a doctor and bit of a tailor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggdDffaahhdDaaaaXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101010 10010110010 10010110010 10011010010 10010110010 10111011010 1001011001 1111001101 11111110010 11011010110 1010111110011 11011111011 11110111111 11100111011 1101001011 1001001101 10010010111 10011010011 11010110110 10111011010 10110011010 1011111011110 1011011001 1001001101 11011110010 11110010110 101101011010 10110110110 10110111100 10101111110 1101011001 01111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1421
- Average number of words per stanza: 276
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; bit, of, and, him, cannot, you, he'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bit, one, all are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, you are repeated).
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- summary of The Newspaper Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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