This is an analysis of the poem The Good Man that begins with:
The good man.
He is still enhancer, renouncer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcccccA deXbafXdXeXXbfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001 101010100 0010010 0010010101010010 001010 1101000111 1111000111 101010 001 10110101111 1101000101 10001100 010 1001 0100111000101 0101010101 1101110 10 01001110001 10010010 1 01 1101011101 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of The Good Man;
- central theme;
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