This is an analysis of the poem The Man Against The Sky that begins with:
Between me and the sunset, like a dome
Against the glory of a world on fire, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcddab eefXfeggehfhf aaggeggeeeeeicceeggiieii jiiiikXafagfgfjffffffXgg ifggeeiddccgXgffgfcgiccggiffalla iiggffiggeebbiimnXaaidgigdffjdekek eiiXifiiooiffffaaggnncXegeecgegegbgbgffgfg ekkaeffeeaffggXeenngehhccXXkeennggppcpqrqrckk kklllgffegggegkjjfjfgffa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,24,24,32,34,42,45,91,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011101 01010001110 110101 11111111110 0101010101 1111110111 0101010101 1010011101 1001010 110010100111 11010010111 1101010011 1101011000 1011011111 1111010011 01010101 1101010111 0101010011 1101010111 110101 0111110101 100111 1011111111 11010111 11010101 1100111 1111001011 110111 1010001111 00101010001 101111101110 1001000111 01010111010 01110011101 1111110101 1101111101 1101011101 1111110 01110111010 010101 01011 1101110101 010101 1101110101 1101111111 1010110101 0111111100 1100010111 1111011101 1000010101 0101000101 111101 001100 11010100111 110101 11000101011 0111010111 1111010111 1111010111 110101 1101100100 110010 110111111 11110100010 11101101010 11111101110 1111110111 1101011000 1111011101 0110000101 10110101 1111010001 01001110111 1000010111 0101001110 01000101 1111110110 1100111111 1101011101 01010101101 1101010100 1110010011 0100011000 11100100101 01110011101 1101010101 1110010111 0101010101 11100101111 0101011001 0101110 1100110101 1001000100 1101010001 010101 100111010010 1101001101 1101011111 1100110111 1111010101 000100 1101011001 1100011001 010101 1111011001 1011010101 0101010001 011101 0111011101 110111 1100110001 1111010101 01010101101 01110011010 0111000010 11011111 11000011111 1101010101 010111 0101100 110101111011 11110110011 1111111101 110111 1111111001 1100010101 11011111 1101010111 111100 1101 1111111100 11001110101 11110101010 1111000111 11001100010 1111 11011100101 1111011101 110111 1111100110010 10110101 0101010101 110101 1111011111 111101 1001010001 0101110111 0101111011 100111101 0111010101 1111000101 0101010111 0101100011 0101110100 1111100101 0111010101 010101 1101001 01010101100 1101010111 01001111101 11010100010 10010111010 0101011111 111011 1101110101 1111011101 1101011101 1110010001 10010101010 0001000101 0101010 1110010001 1100111100 1101110001 111101 1011100111 110111 11001111110 011111 110101 1101111101 01010001010 11010101010 01010101010 01010011010 01010101010 1101110101 0111011 11011111110 1101011011 0101010101 1101110101 01001101 11010100 1100010100 1111010101 110101 0101111101 1010010111 0101010101 0111010100 1000010100 0101111000 1101110100 1100110101 11010101001 0101000111 0101000101 10101010101 111101 0101101010101 0001000111 1110110101 1101010000 1111010111 0111010100 1011110011 0111111100 0101 0011111101 0111001111 110011 11110010101 111111 1011011101 11111111 10110011100 011011101001 110100001 110011 0111 1101010100 001101 1111011001 010101 0101010001 0101011100 01010101000 0101110100 1101010101 1110000100 1100001001 1100011111 01010101001 1111010101 0100110001 0100011001 11111101 11010101 1001111100 1101010100 1101010101 1101110101 1101011111 1101010101 1101010001 01010101010 11110101010 0111110111 0101110111 1101010100 011101 1111110111 111101 11111101011 1111010101 11010100010 0101010 1101010001 1111010111 11101101111 01010101 0101110111 01010101 11011101 1101 111101 0101111000 110101 1111010001 110011 0101010100 10011 01010111 1111111100 1101010100 11010101 01111100111 0101000100 010011111 1111110 1011011101 11010 11001111101 01111111110 11110111110 1101011111 1111011111 11000111101 1111110101 1101111111 1100101101 0101111111 1101 01010101 11010101 111111 11110101 0101011101 0101010101 1111 00110010100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1303
- Average number of words per stanza: 241
- Amount of lines: 314
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; he, of, to, and, for, him, may, his, we, know are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a, to, or are repeated.
The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Man Against The Sky;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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