This is an analysis of the poem One Man that begins with:
Suspicion comes and sits on his shoulder one morning,
Slowly with long, thin beak, it cleans his ear,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabac XbbXXc X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101111010110 1001110101 101101001000110 00010001 110110 1111010011001001 1110111011111 1110111111101001 10110010111110 001111010101100110 11001000011010110010001 01001001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, with, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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- summary of One Man;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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