This is an analysis of the poem Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind that begins with:
What do you think of us in fuzzy endeavor, you whose directions are
sterling, whose lunge is straight?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b a X a b b XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111101010010110101 101101 1110101111011101011101 11010101111101010001 110101010111010010111 01001110011101 010101010101010001 01011001001001011101 01010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, is are repeated.
The author used the same words who, is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Garbageman: The Man With The Orderly Mind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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