This is an analysis of the poem Manners that begins with:
Gingerly, the poets sit.
Gingerly, they spend...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdaebaaceXXfaagXccXhibXXggXbgXahagXibbdcfig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101 10011 01000100100 011101010 101010001 00100101 110100101 1000100 00101001 0101 010111 110101110 10001000100 0010100101 1010010 1011000100001 1001000101 1010101 101000101 10101011010 0101000001 111110 11110110 11010010 1100111 1011101 01011010 11001 1010110100 10110010 100011111 111011011 10111 0101001 1101001110 11010010 10011110 1100110 111010100100 010010001001 0101101001 1011101110 1010100010 111001001 01010110 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1474
- Average number of words per stanza: 247
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words gingerly, the are repeated.
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- summary of Manners;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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