This is an analysis of the poem The Men Who Stuck To Me that begins with:
They were men of many nations, they were men of many stations,
They were men in many places, and of high and low degree;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcb XbXb cbdb dbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010101010 101010101011101 1010111010101010 101110101011101 1011101010101110 101000101010101 1110101000111010 001010111011101 1110111011111010 111110111110111 1011111010111110 111111100011101 1110111000101110 101010101010110 1110111010100110 111011101011101 1111011010101010 100110101110110 1111101011111110 111011100011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (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; men, they, of, many, and, in, some, prison, never, i, me, or, stick, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, some are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me 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 kindness connects the lines.
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