This is an analysis of the poem Man that begins with:
My God, I heard this day,
That none doth build a stately habitation, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbbba cdedced fghgfh daddad iijgjg jhjjjh fbbeXfe bklbklXeeeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,6,6,6,6,7,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 11110101010 11110101 11110110 11010101010 111001 110101 11 10011111 01101101 10111101 1011101111 110101 101100 10010110010 11010101 111101010 1101110100 110111 101111 1111110101 01100101 10010101 1101110111 110101 110111 0111111101 10111110 110111110 0101011001 1100010 011101 1101010101 10110111 11101111 0101110011 010111 1101010 10010111010 01011010 01110111 111100 11110 111111 110111 1111000101 111111011 11011111 1101101111 0100011 111111 1101011100 10110111 11011111 1101111111 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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