This is an analysis of the poem To Show What A Man Can Do that begins with:
There has been many a grander deed since man had life to give,
And thousands have gone to certain death, eyes open, that men might live;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb Xcbb bbbb ccbb XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110100101111101 1101101011101111 110111110111100111 1101111110110111 100010110110100100 10001001110011101 111010010111110111 10001001011110111 00101001111011101 1101101011011111 011111110110110101 100010011111110111 11111001011010111 11111001011010101 101001010011100111 11111011010110111 1000100110 1010101 1101100100 0110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 14
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, their, of, song, this, his, we, such, in, need, deeds are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word do at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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