This is an analysis of the poem Were I Man Grown that begins with:
Were I man grown, I'd stand
With clean heart, soul, and hand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bXXab b c Xcc aaa dXd d ddd dddXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,1,1,3,3,3,1,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 011111 110001 110011 111 1 1 1 110111 011011 1 10001 110101 1111001 110111 1101001 111101 110 101 101111 111111 111101 111111 111111 111001 111111 111011 111111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 63
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 20 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, no are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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