This is an analysis of the poem The Men Who Come Behind that begins with:
There's a class of men (and women) who are always on their guard—
Cunning, treacherous, suspicious—feeling softly—grasping hard—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddaa eeaa ffaa ggff hhhh iicc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101011101111111 101000101010101 101010100010101 100111101010101 011010101110101 11101110111101 101010111010111 101010101011101 100110110110111 101011101010101 101110100110111 101010101011101 101011101110111 111111101010011 111110111110111 111010100011101 111011100010111 111011001110101 101010101010011 101011101011101 011010011011111 101110101110101 111010101010101 101010101010101 101001111110101 111010111111101 111111110111101 10101111010111 111011101110101 111010101111101 111010011010101 111000101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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, and, of, they are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word behind at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Men Who Come Behind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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