This is an analysis of the poem Life Cycle Of Common Man that begins with:

Roughly figured, this man of moderate habits,
This average consumer of the middle class,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabacXdceaefXghebe faijdXefjhgbceeXijbXiecfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101001010010 010001000101 010010010011 1101010101 110101101 010110111 10010101010 110010101 101101010 011111101 1001101111 1001001 1101 000011011011 1001101001 01010110101 110111111 1001100011110 10010010100101 1010100101 01010101010 11110101101 10101100101010 0100111010101100 11011101011 0101001101010 10000100111 010001011010 111001001011 11001111010 0110101010001 10010110101001 111111010101 1100010101010 100101110010 0101111111 01001001110101 1000110001000 010101010 100100100101 10110110010 100100100011 1101010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 971
  • Average number of words per stanza: 168
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, for are repeated.

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