This is an analysis of the poem The Men Who Live It Down that begins with:
I have sinned, like others, blindly, without thought and without fear,
And my best friends say it kindly, ‘You should go away from here.’... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd bbbb eebb XfggXffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111110100111011 111110101110101 111010100010101 101011101011101 101111111110101 101010111111101 011110110111101 001100111111101 111110111011101 011010100110111 111010100011001 111110101111111 101111111011101 101010100110101 1001110101011101 101011011011101 1001111101011100 101111101011101 101110111010111 101011101010101 101011101111101 11101101110101 101011101010101 111011101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, who, and, with, long, to, s are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word down at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase down connects the lines.
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