This is an analysis of the poem Man What Is He? that begins with:
WHAT is Man? The question floweth
From the lips with ease, and yet...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbc dedefgfg XbXbXehe bibiahah agagaeaX ajajbfbf fkfklele igigfbfb XiXXebeb lhlhamam
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 0010111 11111010 1010101 10101010 0010101 10101010 0010101 10101010 1010101 11100010 1010101 11101010 1110101 10101010 1010111 00101010 1110101 01101010 10101011 10111100 0010101 10101010 0010101 11111110 10011101 01101010 1110111 101001010 1010011 00101110 1010101 100111010 1010001 01111110 1010101 11101110 1111111 1010110 1111101 11101010 1011101 00100010 1011101 10101010 1010101 100010010 1011011 10110110 1101101 10101110 1011101 10101010 0010101 10101110 1011111 11100110 1011101 11101010 0111010 11100010 1010101 00100010 0011111 0010101 1000101 10111011 11101100 11101010 1110101 10101010 01110101 10111110 0010111 10111110 1110101 11101010 0010111 11101010 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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