This is an analysis of the poem The Wrist Watch Man that begins with:
He is marching dusty highways and he's riding bitter trails,
His eyes are clear and shining and his muscles hard as nails....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb eebbXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010111110101 01111101010111 101010101010101 1011111000111 111010101110100 101110101010101 101110101010100 1011001000111 101000101010001 101010100010101 101100101010111 11100101000111 101111101011101 11010111110001 101011101010111 010101000111 101011111011111 101111101011111 101000101010001 1111101011111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 58 (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; and, he's, he, man, of, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, he's 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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