This is an analysis of the poem Robert Fulton Tanner that begins with:
If a man could bite the giant hand
That catches and destroys him, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXeeXXfXaXcdbXXffdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001110101 1101011 11110101 110101101 0111111 1011100101 1010101 110011101 111111111 1101111001 01001011010 011110001 1110111010 110101101 1111011101 010110001 111011010001 011100101 110010111 111111111 10111001 01110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 848
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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