This is an analysis of the poem The Man In Chrysanthemum Land that begins with:

There's a brave little berry-brown man
At the opposite side of the earth; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababbcdDC efefefcdDC ghghghhceECXhhhhhhhceEC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101011 101001001 001101101 101001011 111011011 111001111 101001101 011001011 111111 001101 11101001 101101011 101011001 01101101 101001011 101011101 101001001 111011001 11111 001101 11101001 101101011 001001001 11001001 11011011 11011001 101101101 111011101 11011101 111111 001101 11101001 111011011 1101011 01101011 111001101 111101011 101011001 111001011 01011011 111111 001101 11101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, he's, it, his are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word land at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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