This is an analysis of the poem The Walking Man that begins with:
Sunny summer day it was when loping in to Laramie,
I overtook the Walking Man, reined up and nodded 'How!!'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXbcaXaXdXdebcbcefeffgfgegeghfhfijijkgkgkkkXAXbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111000100 11010101111101 1001011111110101 11111110111101 111101011111010 1111001010010111 0101001100100010 111010101010101 1110101101101011 101010101010101 111101011111111 111010101010101 1111101010111011 111010101111101 1010101011101111 101111100110001 1010011011101010 101110111111101 010101110111110 11010101110101 1111101010111110 01110111110111 1111100011101010 101111101110101 1100001111111010 111110101110101 1110101011101010 01010101111111 1110111010110010 111011101010001 111101111111110 111010100010001 111101011111010 111011101110111 110001110101010 111110101001101 1111111010100110 101000101011101 1011101010001010 111010101010011 1010101011101010 101010110010001 1110101000111110 111110101010101 101010111000100 11010101111101 1101110111010101 111110111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2946
- Average number of words per stanza: 588
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, that, and, yuma, to, as, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Walking Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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