This is an analysis of the poem The Men Who Sleep With Danger that begins with:

The men who camp with Danger
Are mostly quiet men:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AbcbXdadeeeeadAdafXfghchAibijbabakekgbXbAcicAlflmhghmeieabbbenmnAomomjbjXiXijfXfAiXiedhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 88,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111010 110101 1111010 111101 11110100 010001 1111010 110101 0101010 100101 10101001 010101 1101010 010101 0111010 111111 0111010 110101 010101 1101101 1111010 011111 0100011 110001 0111010 110101 1111010 110111 10101110 010111 1111010 110111 0111010 110111 1111111 110101 0100010 110101 01110100 010101 0111010 110101 1101011 110101 0111010 010111 1101110 110111 0101010 0101001 1101010 011101 1111011 011111 11110111 111101 0111010 110101 0100010 011101 1101110 110111 0100011 100101 0111010 110001 1101010 010001 1101011 111011 11101110 010111 1111110 110101 1101100 111101 1111110 1011011 1111010 010101 0111010 111111 01010000 011111 11111111 1111001 11010011 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2485
  • Average number of words per stanza: 480
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • 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; and, from, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, a, they, he are repeated.

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