This is an analysis of the poem The Man And The Flea that begins with:
Whether on earth, in air, or main,
Sure ev'ry thing alive is vain!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddbXeeccffbXXXbbaaaaggaahhffbXXcaafffX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 11010101 11011101 11010101 11110101 11011101 10110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 100110011 11110101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11011101 10110101 11000101 01111111 11110111 1100010100 110101010 10011101 1101111 01110101 01110101 10110101 01010101 110101001 10110101 01010001 01110111 01010001 010101001 11111101 11010101 11011111 01110011 101001100 01010101 11011001 11110111 11001111 11111101 11110111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1634
- Average number of words per stanza: 303
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, when, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Man And The Flea;
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