This is an analysis of the poem Mankind that begins with:
Mankind
Face to face with the fire-abyss,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbXbbXXXba X X XXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,1,1,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11 101001001 10010110100 01011101001011 0101011 111001010101101 11100100011 0101010111 101110 11110110101010 11010010001001 01011010 10 10110100 11000101010 1110010101 10010100100 10101011101 111101100 11011111010 111100111 111111110100 110111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word menschheit is repeated.
The author used the same word menschheit at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase menschheit connects the lines.
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- summary of Mankind;
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